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<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 &#8216;see&#8217;
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,
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