Mike Montemerlo, software lead for the Stanford University Racing Team, describes some of the challenges the team faced in winning the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles. (MP3 audio, 3:03 mins.)
Logic Programming Associates's new Prolog (announcement). AI in Forth and Gawk. Maarten van Emden on the future of logic programming. Regular expressions in Prolog. An introduction to evolutionary art.
The success of the Space Shuttle Discovery mission took place amid fervent speculation about NASA's value. Few software project managers would envy the attention.
