. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Oral history interview with Nils J. Nilsson" . . "Nilsson begins the interview with a brief historical overview of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)-sponsored artificial intelligence (AI) research at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), including his own work on robotics, research on the Computer Based Consultant, and related research on natural language and speech understanding. He notes the impact to the Mansfield amendment on ARPA funding for these projects at SRI." . . "Oral histories" . . . .