Assessment of the Computer Science Activities of the Office of Naval Research

摘要

A Panel of the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council met for two days in October 1985 to assess the computer science programs of the Office of Naval (ONR). These programs are supported by the Contract Research Program (CRP) as well as the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the Naval Air Systems Command, and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Based principally on information presented to the Panel at the two-day meeting, as well as their knowledge of the field, the panel offers comments on the computer science research of the Navy and suggestions for further improvement of a program that has already made numerous good investments with a number of the best projects in the country and an excellent record of success. ONR, for example, was encouraged to take further advantage of its entrepreneurial flexibility to improve technology transfer between computer science and the Navy by mechanisms such as focused meetings, consulting, and scientific exchange programs. The Panel also identified five potential new areas requiring substantial basic research: real-time systems, system structure concepts, parallel programming, formalization of expert systems, and representation of physical objects.