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BBN Technologies has been awarded $5.5 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first phase of the Integrated Learning Program.

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has been awarded $5.5 million in funding from the

(DARPA) for the first phase of the Integrated Learning Program.

Over the next four years BBN will develop an artificial intelligence capability called “Integrated Learner” that will learn plans or processes after being shown a single example. The total value of the project, if all four years of the development programme are completed, could be up to $24 million.

The goal is to combine specialised domain knowledge with common sense knowledge to create a reasoning system that learns as well as a person and can be applied to a variety of complex tasks. Such a system will significantly expand the kinds of tasks that a computer can learn.

Under the contract, administered by the US Air Force Research Laboratory, BBN’s first year research will focus on military medical logistics planning. The specific goal is completion of a simulation which involves evacuating wounded military personnel and civilians from Fallujah, Iraq to hospitals in Germany and Kuwait.

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