ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from April 1992

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from April 1992

The fuzzy logic picture gets clearer. (Fuzz-IEEE '92 Conference)
April 1, 1992... The Fuzz-IEEE '92 Conference, held last month in San Diego, CA, served as an important milestone in the evolution of the fuzzy logic field. Bringing together nearly 500 attendees, the show helped to forge a bond between long-time researchers and...

Assembly plant installs voice systems. (New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.'s portable interactive voice terminals)
April 1, 1992... New United Motor Manufacturing (Fremont, CA), a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota, has begun equipping paint inspectors at its pickup truck assembly facility with portable interactive voice terminals. The voice terminals in the...

Stone & Webster, Foxboro to co-market expert system. (Stone and Webster Engineering Corp. Stone and Webster Advanced Systems Development Services; Foxboro Co.)
April 1, 1992... Stone & Webster Advanced Systems Development Services (Boston, MA), a developer of expert system applications, and The Foxboro Co. (Foxboro, MA), a supplier of advanced systems, instruments and services for industrial process automation and...

Partnership to develop ES for supercomputers. (expert system for nCube 2 supercomputer; NCUBE Corp.'s joint research partnership with Paralogic Inc., Lehigh University and Ben Franklin Technology Center for Southeastern Pennsylvania)
April 1, 1992... nCUBE (Foster City, CA), a supplier of massively parallel computing solutions, has entered into a joint research partnership with Paralogic Inc., Lehigh University and The Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Center (all of Bethlehem, PA) to...

Computer Associates acquires expert system tool. (Computer Associates International Inc.; RA-Metrics; Total Quality Management/Software; FPXpert)
April 1, 1992... Software giant Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) (Islandia, NY) has acquired three PC-based software metrics products from Howard Rubin Associates (Pound Ridge, NY): RA-Metrics, the Total Quality Management/Software (TQM/S) system, and...

AT&T replacing operators with voice systems. (American Telephone and Telegraph Co.)
April 1, 1992... American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (New York, NY) plans to deploy its voice recognition technology nationwide by replacing long-distance operators with computerized systems. While a major endorsement of the benefits of voice recognition, AT&T's...

NeuraLogix, Samsung sign fuzzy deal. (NeuraLogix Inc.; Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)
April 1, 1992... American NeuraLogix Inc. (Sanford, FL), a vendor of fuzzy logic products, and Samsung Electronics Corp. (Seoul, Republic of Korea) have signed a 10-year technology transfer agreement, giving Samsung manufacturing and usage rights to NeuraLogix's...

Verity, Lotus ink text retrieval pact. (Verity Inc.; Lotus Development Corp.)
April 1, 1992... Verity Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and Lotus Development Corp. (Cambridge, MA) have signed a technology agreement to license Verity's full-text retrieval technology for all Lotus products. Verity's Topic retrieval engine will be incorporated into...

Gensym establishes university program. (Gensym Corp.'s Center of Excellence real-time computer and expert system training program)
April 1, 1992... Gensym Corp. (Cambridge, MA) has established a "Center of Excellence" program to introduce students at the university level to real-time computing and expert system technology. Close to 100 universities are participating in the program, using...

IAKE launches Knowledge Resource Identification Strategy (KRIS). (International Association of Knowledge Engineers)
April 1, 1992... The International Association of Knowledge Engineers (IAKE) (Rockville, MD), an international association for knowledge engineers, has launched a formal effort known as the Knowledge Resource Identification Strategy (KRIS). With the...

ILOG reports a profitable '91. (ILOG S.A.)
April 1, 1992... ILOG (Gentilly, France), a vendor of knowledge-based systems and software engineering tools, has reported that sales revenues rose from $7.5 million for 1990 to $8.6 million for 1991, an increase of nearly 15%. The company also reported a net...

AICorp names Gannon CFO. (AICorp Inc. appoints John Gannon as chief financial officer)
April 1, 1992... AICorp Inc. (Waltham, MA), vendor of the KBMS expert system development tool and the new KBMS Helpdesk Shell, has named John Gannon vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer. Gannon had previously been treasurer and...

NeuralWare, Reilly part ways. (John Reilly resigns from NeuralWare Inc.)
April 1, 1992... NeuralWare Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), a neural network tool vendor, has announced that John Reilly, president, has left the company. A replacement is being sought with management and marketing skills. Reilly is the second high-level executive to...

NeXT names Van Cuylenburg president. (NeXT Inc.; Peter Van Cuylenburg)
April 1, 1992... NeXT Computer Inc. (Redwood City, CA) has named Peter Van Cuylenburg president and chief operating officer. Van Cuylenburg and Steve Jobs, NeXT's founder and chairman, will share responsibilities for managing the company. Van Cuylenburg, who had...

Rosh names Levinger VP of marketing. (Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc. appoints Michael J. Levinger as vice president of marketing)
April 1, 1992... Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc. (Needham, MA), a developer of knowledge management software systems for automating field service and maintenance organizations, has named Michael J. Levinger vice president of marketing. Levinger had previously...

Servio names Edwards president and CEO. (Servio Corp.; Lacy Edwards; chief executive officer)
April 1, 1992... Servio Corp. (Alameda, CA), a vendor of object databases and tools, has named Lacy Edwards president and CEO, replacing Donal O'Shea, who has left the company "to pursue other interests." Edwards is the former president and CEO of XA Systems, a...

ILOG names Escudie director of marketing. (ILOG S.A.: Jean-Luc Escudie)
April 1, 1992... ILOG S.A. (Gentilly, France), a vendor of knowledge-based systems and software engineering tools, has named Jean-Luc Escudie director of marketing. Escudie most recently worked at Renault, the leading French automotive manufacturer, where he...

Compaq installs CBR help desk. (Compaq Computer Corp.; case-based reasoning)
April 1, 1992... Compaq Computer Corp. (Houston, TX) has installed a large-scale help desk automation system that draws on case-based reasoning (CBR). Currently in production, the Support Management Automated Reasoning Technology (SMART) system for Compaq...

Integrating multimedia with expert systems.
April 1, 1992... AI technologies -- notably natural language, voice recognition and text retrieval -- are playing an important role in bringing multimedia applications to the mainstream. An up-and-coming trend in intelligent computing, in fact, is the multimedia...

Sorting mink furs with neural nets. (Danish Fur Sales)
April 1, 1992... Danish Fur Sales (Copenhagen, Denmark) has developed a neural network system that automatically sorts mink furs into six different color classes. The system was developed using the NeuroShell neural network development tool from Ward Systems...

Group technology enhanced with AI. (Group Technology Assistant information retrieval program; artificial intelligence)
April 1, 1992... Engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) (San Antonio, TX) have developed an engineering information retrieval program called the Group Technology Assistant (GTA), which introduces a graphical user interface (GUI) to speed the...

IAKE sets up an AI job bank. (International Association of Knowledge Engineers; artificial intelligence)
April 1, 1992... As reported earlier (see ISR, September 1991), a worldwide, electronically-accessible job bank for AI professionals has been set up by the International Association of Knowledge Engineers (IAKE) (Rockville, MD). Available to corporations,...

Financial firms mortgage their futures on expert systems. (Judgment Processing mortgage and insurance expert system)
April 1, 1992... About a year ago, Cogensys, a privately-held expert system tool vendor for financial applications, was acquired by Cybertek, a publicly-traded life insurance software company (see ISR, April 1991). Since last spring, when Cybertek created the...

Four VARs develop natural language products. (Natural Language Inc.'s value-added reseller partner program; CHC; CMSI; Datalogix; RCMS)
April 1, 1992... Natural Language Inc. (NLI) (Berkeley, CA) has added four vertical market software developers -- CHC, CMSI, Datalogix, and RCMS -- to its value-added reseller (VAR) partner program. By integrating NLI's Natural Language product with their...

Mitsubishi announces fuzzy control system. (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.'s MF Adapter) (Product Announcement)
April 1, 1992... Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed the MF Adapter, a control system with fuzzy logic functions designed for use with die-sink electric discharge machines (EDMs). The system also incorporates an expert system with a knowledge base to support...

Fujita develops system for construction planning. (Fujita Corp.'s PF-Plan) (Product Announcement)
April 1, 1992... Fujita Corp. has developed PF-Plan, a knowledge-based software package designed to support the planning of large construction projects. Fujita is already using the software in-house to plan construction work for the Trans-Tokyo-Bay Highway...