[ih] History of AI and Internet

[Barbara Denny]

 Off hand i don't know of any specific projects (much less products)  but considering your question i am thinking of a couple things that happened in the 90s that might have included AI in some way. If i wanted to see what might have been done    i would start checking out the work done with software radios ( and perhaps composable systems).  Then there is cognitive radio.  Beyond spectrum issues there may have been AI-like things people thought about trying and did try. The other topic is Active Networks.  It was a Darpa Program headed by Doug Maughan i think.  I don't know what was really done.  I left SRI before the program really got off the ground so i don't know what the projects really were about.  
Now what is actually used  in the commercial internet is a different question. No insight there.
Of course these suggestions might not be enough internet related for you.
barbara
    On Monday, June 22, 2026 at 02:12:13 PM PDT, william yeager via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 Hi Jack,

The answer is yes. And one needs to ask what was/is AI to uncover the history. As you’ve clearly pointed out, AI has a long history. It evolved with multiple versions boot strapped in 1955 with John McCarthy’s vision in which he coined the name AI with the following statement. 

"We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”

AI was never a silo and strongly depended on the evolution of multiple technical and non-technical advances. We all are aware of them.

To be brief and answer your question below. A couple of years ago I saw a demo given by a member of DataBricks.com, a Big Data Analytics Company, engineering team. It used the company's Apache Spark APIs to detect, isolate, and stop an attack in real time. 

Apache Spark <https://spark.apache.org/>: "Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.”

I also know of a small, new startup that is in stealth mode and whose goal is to use a "Small Language Model” (SLM) to secure businesses from Internet attacks. 

Why “Small?” Because they use LLMs technics but training data is limited to the knowledge necessary to accomplish their goal. They are exclusively trained by professionals in their domain. They do not “hallucinate.” A typical SML example is detecting breast cancer from mammograms. 

Slightly off topic and I apologize.

> On Jun 22, 2026, at 12:50 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Anybody else know more about the history of the use of AI *within* (not just on top of) The Internet?  For example, when there are problems in today's Internet, are AI techniques and tools used to diagnose and repair them?  What's the History of such things?

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