From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.aset.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bob Spooner" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:52:06 -0400 Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: References: <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129888684.681335.230450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1130049078.633311.55000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nat1.arl.psu.edu X-Trace: f04n12.cac.psu.edu 1130158328 31652 128.118.40.76 (24 Oct 2005 12:52:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@f04n12.cac.psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:52:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5905 Date: 2005-10-24T08:52:06-04:00 List-Id: "Steve Whalen" wrote in message news:1130049078.633311.55000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Much the way the DARPA > challenge of having an autonomous vehicle drive itself over 100 miles > through rough desert terrain was solved: not by elegant software, but > by practical engineering and brute force computing. In the time-frames > I was referring to (50 to 100 years from now), the power of today's > most powerful weather simulation super computers will fit inside a > hollowed out grain of sand. > I think you would be surprised at the elegance of some of the artificial intelligence techniques that are used. Where I work, we do research on and with autonomous vehicles. The brute force approach simply doesn't work. Bob