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Robots in the desert: a research parable for our times

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DARPA's grand challenge spurred advances in the application of AI and, ironically, acted as a referendum on its de-emphasis on academic research.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 48, Issue 12
The semantic e-business vision
December 2005
104 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1101779
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Published: 01 December 2005
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