Sperry Univac Pioneers Application of Artificial Intelligence – 1985-1987

By: Larry Walker, May 2023 The first meeting was convened in 1985 by Gerry Probst, Chairman of Sperry.  He opened the meeting with these remarks: “Gentlemen, Univac missed the mini-computer.  Then we missed the personal computer.  I have been hearing a great deal about this new artificial intelligence technology.  I want to know if this…

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This blog supports an effort to describe operational facilities which were successfully applied to development of Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) at Sperry Univac from 1985 to 1987. The organization associated with this effort was the Knowledge Systems Center (KSC), with Larry L. Walker as the Program Manager. Subsequent to the KSC work, there was additional…