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

购买了一台人工智能工作站，用于新成立的工程专家系统实验室。购置这种设备将大大加强许多教员的研究工作，这些教员主要在机械设计和制造领域参与专家系统的发展。这种系统的开发涉及到符号语言的使用，如LISP和PROLOG，但通用计算机的体系结构不适合这些语言。需要额外的硬件来进行快速的符号和逻辑处理，还需要额外的本地内存来提高效率。人工智能工作站满足了这些需求，从而大大减少了专家系统的开发时间。

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.