William Shankle



Doctor William Shankle is an American researcher associated with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA is responsible for promoting new technology through private and public sector research and development. Dr. Shankle is a computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence. He has developed the AI software used by the FQ-150A Brawler UCAV and a game based on the Zai's current behavior patterns which can be used to test various strategies against them. He looks at the anima from a computer scientist's perspective as machines instead of people or sentient beings, and misses the holistic picture or viewpoint. This is akin to a biologist seeing only the genome and missing the phenotype of an organism.