[ih] History of AI and Internet

[John Alvord]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 17:11 Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
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> Have you heard of bothunter? I tried it out in the lab at Boeing (2010).
> I am not sure whether people will call it AI but i thought it was
> interesting for its time.
> https://www.csl.sri.com/~vinod/papers/bothunter.pdf
> barbara
>     On Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 01:40:22 PM PDT, D Waitzman via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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).
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> 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".
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> 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)
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