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Hugh Burns directs the artificial intelligence research program for the Human Resources Laboratory at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, where he is investigating intelligent computer-assisted instruction, expert systems, and computational linguistics.

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Burns, H. The challenge for computer-assisted rhetoric. Comput Hum 18, 173–181 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02267220

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