[ih] History of AI and Internet

[william yeager]

Hi， 

> On Jun 23, 2026, at 1:40 PM, D Waitzman via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org <mailto:jack at 3kitty.org>> wrote:
>> That started the "Automated Network Management" (ANM) project as a new research task at BBN
> 
> I worked on ANM from 1989 to 1997, though it had been renamed Advanced Network Management (still ANM) before I started.  I was told that the team realized that it was not viable to be 'Automated'.  The only remnant of AI was that the UI was written in Lisp (Common Lisp, with Flavors IIRC).
> 
> 
> 
> I took Professor Marvin Minsky's Society of Minds class (6.868) at MIT in 1992. Early this year, in one of my first attempts at using Gemini "deep research", I asked it what Professor Marvin Minsky would have thought about today's AI systems.  Its answer was the typical on-the-surface well-written piece you'd expect but I did not do an in-depth analysis.  I suspect that Minsky would be strongly on the side of "today's AI is not real AGI”.
> 

Dr. Marvin Minsky was one of the co-signers of John McCarthy’s 1955 document coining the name AI and defining what he thought it should be. This is before he became a co-founder of the MIT AI-lab. Super wonderful, brilliant fellow.

I agree with you. 

By the way, while at Stanford, my research to use AI techniques to monitor and manage the Stanford local area ethernet using the SNMP data of hosts and routers, Bayesian Statistics, straight forward statistics, the laboratory's calendar of events, build and maintain a network topology internal map looking for changes that would trigger an investigation, keep track of my labs network traffic 24x7 looking for out-of-band abnormalities that would also trigger an alert , etc., and  was making decent progress when DEC was having financial problems 1990 and cut my financial support. Nice learning experience. 

> 
> And regarding rule-based systems and the Internet -- how many of you worked on DEC VAXen whose final configuration was done by DEC's R-1 expert system?  (See https://cdn.aaai.org/AAAI/1980/AAAI80-076.pdf)
> 
> 
> --
> David Waitzman
> 
> -- 
> Internet-history mailing list
> Internet-history at elists.isoc.org
> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history
> -
> Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history

————打🎾————
马年快乐🐎
<Happy year of the horse>
保佑众生 🙏🐘🌲🦋🏃‍♀️🐳
<Bless & Protect all living things>