sonar

n : an instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and

measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of

the pulse to return (sonar is SOund NAvigation Ranging;

asdic is Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation

Committee) [syn: {echo sounder}, {asdic}]

SOAR

1. State, Operator And Result. A general problem-solving

{production system} architecture, intended as a model of human

intelligence. Developed by A. Newell in the early 1980s.

SOAR was originally implemented in {Lisp} and {OPS5} and is

currently implemented in {Common Lisp}. Version: Soar6.

E-mail: .

["The SOAR Papers", P.S. Rosenbloom et al eds, MIT Press

1993].

(1994-11-04)

2. Smalltalk On A RISC. A {RISC} {microprocessor} designed by

David Patterson's at Berekeley.

(1994-11-04)