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Publications and source records attributed to Spivey, Whitney Jackson.
The following files are an update to the unclassified timeline in the Blue Room (the classified Weapons museum on the sixth floor of the NSSB). The current timeline ends at 2011; these files will bring the timeline up to the present. The previous timeline also failed to show that the USSR became Russia in 1991, so these files update that major world event. The timeline will be viewed by VIP visitors to the Laboratory
The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) - essentially programming machines to think like humans - conjures up different emotions in different people. Some view it with fear, imagining a malevolent AI similar to Skynet in the Terminator movies. Others see something benevolent, such as the character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Still others see it as a means to advance the frontiers of science, engineering and technology to new levels not possible through traditional means. At the National Security Research Center (NSRC or the Center), which is the classified library at Los Alamos National Laboratory, we see AI as a tool to help us go through the monumental tasks we have in digitizing, cataloging, and searching our collections.