Engineering Research Equipment Grant for an AI Workstation for Engineering Expert Systems Lab

购买了一个人工智能（AI）工作站， 新成立的工程专家系统实验室 收购 这些设备将大大加强研究工作的一个 大量教师参与专家系统的开发， 主要是在机械设计和制造领域。 这种系统的开发涉及符号语言的使用， 如LISP和PROLOG，但通用的体系结构 计算机不适合这种语言。 额外的硬件 需要快速的符号和逻辑处理，以及额外的 本地内存，以提高效率。 AI工作站实现了这些 需求，从而大大减少专家的开发时间 系统.

An artificial intelligence (AI) workstation is purchased for use in the newly established Engineering Expert Systems Lab. The acquisition of such equipment will considerably enhance the research efforts of a large number of faculty involved in the development of expert systems, primarily in the areas of mechanical design and manufacturing. Development of such systems involves the use of symbolic languages, such as LISP and PROLOG, but the architecture of general purpose computers is not suitable for such languages. Additional hardware is needed for fast symbolic and logical processing, as well as additional local memory, to increase efficiency. AI workstations fulfill these needs and thus reduce considerably the development time for expert systems.