<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>visionary</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="virus.html" title="virus"/><link rel="next" href="Visual-Fred.html" title="Visual Fred"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">visionary</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Visual-Fred.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="visionary"/><dt xmlns="" id="visionary"><b>visionary</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to ‘see’ things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is, how can the computer be programmed to make use of the camera information? See <a href="../S/SMOP.html"><i class="glossterm">SMOP</i></a>, <a href="../A/AI-complete.html"><i class="glossterm">AI-complete</i></a>.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Visual-Fred.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Visual Fred</td></tr></table></div></body></html>