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- - a field that once inspired dreams of sentient computers like 2001 : A Space Odyssey 's HAL 9000 and laid claim to the secret of human intelligence , only to be forced to back off from its ambitions after years of experimental frustrations . Or any questions you would like to put to the scientists . DAG uses artificial intelligence , linguistic and psychological techniques to imbue its avatars not only with intelligence but the semblance of emotion . I would like you to send me detailed information ( including images ) about the living conditions of the prisioners such as the dimensions of the barracks and the sleeping places . I would like to respond to the advertisement placed recently in your newspaper by Mr Bradley R. Smith and his follow-up letter . By looking at abundances of species of planktonic foraminifera recovered from marine sediments , Dr. Kucera is developing a new tool to reconstruct sea-surfaces temperatures in the past . " " Carnegie Mellon University 's National Robotics Engineering Consortium will build and test a prototype of a robotic , unmanned , ground combat vehicle for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency . I am familiar with Speer 's work , and the grand plan for Berlin , but I would like to study in depth more of the influences of Nazi doctrines upon the styles built . Bentley describes how Adrian Thompson , a British engineer , came up with a few dozen random arrangements of transistors and programmed a computer to test how well they did various jobs , like distinguishing between high-pitched and low - pitched tones . " http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/science/11WOLF.html June 10 , 2002 : New Way Upcoming To Test Climate Change Predictions . The data will provide a new target to test the computer models on which our predictions of climate change are based . I will probably not have time to address the bulk of his work in the near future , much as I would like to . Col. Jette 's robotic comrade began proving his mettle after Sept. 11 , when he probed the wreckage of the World Trade Center to test structural soundness .