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From: marcel@uiucdcs.UUCP (marcel )
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Subject: Re: Build A Machine in Seven Easy Steps - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 22:25:27 EST
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uiucdcs!marcel    Feb  3 17:12:00 1984

Ed Snow, from CS at Carnegie-Mellon; Thompson, from EE at Carnegie-Mellon,
etc, working for Mario Barbacci and Dan Siewiorek, built a system that was
not explicitly AI, but was CAD. It was reputedly capable of mapping functional
descriptions into hardware designs through a number of architectural levels.
I think they used the ISPS description language. The system might be valuable
for comparison.

					Marcel Schoppers
					U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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