[ih] Internet at Sea

[Greg Skinner]

On Oct 3, 2025, at 11:38 PM, vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> SRI developed an Advanced Airborne Load Planning System to demonstrate the
> utility of having access to computing power on the Internet while literally
> on the tarmac at the 18th Airborne Corps. The system could load plan in
> seconds the entire 18th Airborne using AALPS. Eventually a flyoff was done
> with the regular load masters and they concluded the system did better than
> they did. It could also include low altittude air extraction (eg, using a
> parachute to pull a tank out of the loading bay) and was smart enough to
> organize the loading to offload the equipment before the pax (passengers)
> so we didn't drop equipment on the troops.
> 
> vint

Also see:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5006536 (registration required)
https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/A-heritage-of-innovation-The-Life-and-Times-of-a-Successful-SRI-Laboratory-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Robotics.pdf

Greg