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The Knowledge Based Software Assistant (KBSA) was a research program funded by the United States Air Force. The goal of the program was to apply concepts from artificial intelligence to the problem of designing and implementing computer software. Software would be described by models in very high level languages (essentially equivalent to first order…
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| the diagnosis of faults in aircraft | instance of | HistoryIn the early 1980s the United States Air Force realized that they had received significant benefits from applying artificial intelligence technologies to solving expert p… | 0.80 | text |
| Ada or to harden code for real time mission critical fault tolerance.The air force decided to fund further research on this vision through their Rome Air Development Center laboratory at Griffiss air force base in New York | instance of | requirements to use specific programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Andersen Consulting | instance of | Companies | 0.80 | text |
| the Andersen Consulting Concept Demo the specification language was expanded to support message passing as well.Intelligent AssistantKBSA took a different approach than traditional expert systems when it came to how to solve problems | instance of | In later versions of KBSA | 0.80 | text |
| work with users | instance of | In later versions of KBSA | 0.80 | text |
| the Andersen Consulting Concept Demo the specification language was expanded to support message passing as well | instance of | In later versions of KBSA | 0.80 | text |
| Knowledge Based Software Assistant | related to history | In | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge Based Software Assistant | related to history | United States Air Force | 0.60 | section |
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| Knowledge Based Software Assistant | related to history | KBSA | 0.60 | section |
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