RAND Intelligent Terminal Agent (RITA)
Design Philosophy
ResearchPublished 1976
A description of the design constraints, design requirements, and overall design philosophy guiding the implementation of the RAND Intelligent Terminal Agent (RITA). RITA is a set of computer programs residing in a PDP-11/45 minicomputer. These programs are capable of acting as a "user agent" which can perform a variety of tasks, under either direct user control or semiautonomous operation over extended periods of time. The RITA system is designed to be widely applicable as a stand-alone computing resource for local text manipulation, as a limited heuristic modeling tool, and as a front end to remote computing systems and networks. Operational features in the current (January 1976) version of RITA are described.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
- Availability: Web-Only
- Year: 1976
- Pages: 48
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/R1809
- Document Number: R-1809-ARPA
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Anderson, Robert H. and James J. Gillogly, RAND Intelligent Terminal Agent (RITA): Design Philosophy, RAND Corporation, R-1809-ARPA, 1976. As of October 12, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1809.html
Anderson, Robert H. and James J. Gillogly, RAND Intelligent Terminal Agent (RITA): Design Philosophy. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1976. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1809.html.
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