Re: "AI Manhattan Project" The Manhattan project involved almost no research (1). It was an engineering project whose constraints were manpower and money. The

Re: "AI Manhattan Project" The Manhattan project involved almost no research (1). It was an engineering project whose constraints were manpower and money. The research was a somewhat more low-budget affair, viz, szilard daydreaming around London, Fermi working in a 3rd rate Italian lab. (1) One of the few actual innovations was the explosive lens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_lens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_lens