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Glossary<br />

AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence<br />

ABC American Broadcasting Company<br />

ABCCCIII Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center (III)<br />

Ada The official computer language of the U.S. military. Named for Ada Lovelace,<br />

the first computer programmer.<br />

ADS Advanced Decision Systems<br />

AES Applications of Expert Systems<br />

AFB Air Force Base<br />

AGLT Automatic Gun-Laying Turret<br />

AI Artificial Intelligence<br />

AID Agency for International Development<br />

AIDS Advanced Immune Deficiency Syndrome<br />

ALB AirLand Battle<br />

AR&DA Army Research & Development and Acquisitions (magazine)<br />

ARPA Advanced Research Proj ects Agency. A Department of Defense agency that<br />

funds applied and other military research. Known as ARPA from its founding<br />

in 1958 to 1972, DARPA from 1972 to 1992, and ARPA again now.<br />

Asats Anti-satellite satellites and other systems.<br />

ASW Anti-Submarine Warfare or Association of Scientific Workers, a twentiethcentury<br />

leftist scientist organization in Great Britain<br />

ATE Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms<br />

AT&T American Telegraph and Telephone Company<br />

BINAC Binary Integrator and Computer.<br />

Bit Binary digit. A 0 or 1. The basic unit of computerized information.<br />

Bips Bits per second. A measure of computing speed.<br />

BMOS Black Moving Objects. Slang used by U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf War<br />

to describe Saudi Arabian women.<br />

BUIC Back-Up Interceptor Control. A part of the SAGE system.<br />

C Command and Control<br />

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