David L. Parnas on AI
2 quotes from David L. Parnas on the wall, 1985, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Communications of the ACM.
The same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers
Parnas, a software engineer, resigned from the SDI Organization's Panel on Computing in Support of Battle Management in 1985. His essays explaining why were published in Communications of the ACM in December 1985.
Communications of the ACMSoftware Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems
Heuristic techniques do not yield systems that one can trust
Parnas wrote this after resigning from the Strategic Defense Initiative's battle management computing panel. In this section he weighs AI and expert systems as a fix for the SDI software problem. Published December 1985.
Communications of the ACMSoftware Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems