ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from August 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from August 1991

AAAI '91: a report from Anaheim. (American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
August 1, 1991... An era of cooperation is underway AAAI '91: a report from Anaheim WordTech Systems acquires VP-Expert from Paperback Software. Aion licenses case-based reasoning technology from Cognitive Systems. Franz agrees to supply its UNIX-based...

Innovative applications for the '90's. (Third Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference)
August 1, 1991... Shepherding data with an Al collie Innovative applications for the '90s The Third Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI '91) conference was held this year in conjunction with AAAI '91 (see cover story). As before, the emphasis was on...

Neural networks at the crossroads. (International Joint Conference on Neural Networks)
August 1, 1991... IJCNN '91 review Neural networks at the crossroads This year's International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN '91), held July 8-12 in Seattle, WA, had a distinct hit-or-miss quality about it. On the plus side, for instance,...

Microsoft joins MCC's Cyc project. (Common Sense Knowledge Base project)(Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.)
August 1, 1991... Microsoft joins MCC's Cyc project Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) has joined the Common Sense Knowledge Base (Cyc) project spearheaded by Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) (Austin, TX). In the process Microsoft has become an...

Pathfinder to market 3M's SelectPro expert system. (Pathfinder Advanced Computing Technology Inc.) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Pathfinder to market 3M's SelectPro expert system Pathfinder Advanced Computing Technology Inc. (Jacksonville, FL) will commercialize the SelectPro Selection System Software, an expert system developed by 3M Co. (St. Paul, MN). Pathfinder will...

Lucid signs VAR deal. (Lucid Inc.)(value-added resellers)
August 1, 1991... Lucid signs VAR deal Lucid Inc. (Menlo Park, CA) has announced that its Lucid Common Lisp/RS/6000 is being used as the base for value-added software products being ported to the latest IBM platform. Among the value-added resellers (VARs) using...

CIGNA licenses expert system from Cybertek-Cogensys. (Cybertek-Cogensys Corp.)(CIGNA Corp.)
August 1, 1991... CIGNA licenses expert system from Cybertek-Cogensys Cybertek-Cogensys Corp. (San Diego, CA) has licensed its Judgment Processing expert system to CIGNA Corp. (Bloomfield, CT) for application to its Group Insurance line. CIGNA also plans to...

ATSC names Cissel president and CEO. (Paul C. Cissel named president and Chief Executive Officer of Automated Technology Systems Corp)
August 1, 1991... ATSC names Cissel president and CEO Automated Technology Systems Corp. (ATSC) (Hauppauge, NY), an expert system software developer, has named Paul C. Cissel president and CEO. Cissel had previously been with Hewlett-Packard in a variety of...

IBM names ICAD a business partner. (ICAD Inc.)
August 1, 1991... IBM names ICAD a business partner ICAD Inc. (Cambridge, MA), a supplier of knowledge-based engineering software for mechanical design and manufacturing engineering automation, has been named an IBM Business Partner, Authorized Industry...

ITT gives quality award to an expert system. (ITT Commercial Finance.)
August 1, 1991... ITT gives quality award to an expert system The Expert Credit System, developed by ITT Commercial Finance (St. Louis, MO), has been named the winner of the ITT 1990 Corporate Quality Award. ECS is an AI-based system which enhances the company's...

Arris raises $5.2 million. (Arris Pharmaceutical Corp.)
August 1, 1991... Arris raises $5.2 million Arris Pharmaceutical Corp. (South San Francisco), a company that combines expertise in AI, biology and medicinal chemistry, has completed a $5.2 million round of private financing. The proceeds will be used to further...

TI to develop Ada code generator for IEF. (Texas Instruments Inc.)(Information Engineering Facility)
August 1, 1991... TI to develop Ada code generator for IEF Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) will develop an Ada code generator capability for the Information Engineering Facility (IEF), TI's integrated CASE product, by June 1992. The Army Material Command had...

Cognex, Laurier ink machine vision pact. (Cognex Corp.)(Laurier Inc.)
August 1, 1991... Cognex, Laurier ink machine vision pact Cognex Corp. (Needham, MA), a supplier of machine vision systems, has entered into an OEM agreement with Laurier Inc. (Hudson, NH), a manufacturer of microelectronics assembly equipment. Laurier has used...

Integrated CASE in the '90s. (interview)
August 1, 1991... Interview with TI's CASE expert Integrated CASE in the '90s What is the current state of CASE technology? There are three categories of CASE tools. The first is front-end tools that allow you to draw diagrams and represent system...

CBR system. (case-based reasoning expert system) (Product Announcement)
August 1, 1991... CBR system ReMind is a case-based reasoning (CBR) expert system development shell written in C++ for DOS/Windows, OS/2, Presentation Manager, Macintosh II, and UNIX/X Motif. Case-based reasoning represents knowledge as case histories or...

Procedure-based expert system. (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Procedure-based expert system Symbologic Adept 2.0, an expert system development tool, uses procedural networks to model business and technical procedures, and then turns those procedures into interactive software applications that guide the...

Configuration shell. (knowledge-based software system) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Configuration shell SPEx (Shell for Product Expertise) is a knowledge-based software system that developers can use to build configuration applications. Configuration tasks that SPEx can automate include: inquiry review, criteria...

Lisp-to-C. (computer language translator) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Lisp-to-C Lisp-to-C Translator 3.0 now features a full implementation of Steele's Common Lisp: The Language, first edition; numerous features from the second edition, including a complete CLOS; and extensions such as a foreign language...

Diagnostic system. (diagnosis of faults and failures in business environments) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Diagnostic system Mercury Intelligent Diagnostic System (MIDS) is an expert system tool for the diagnosis of failures and faults in business environments. The MIDS system encompasses crisis management, preventive/predictive analysis and total...

Common Lisp with common Prolog. (computer languages) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Common Lisp with Common Prolog With Lisp Works 3.0, an object-oriented Common Lisp development system, programmers now have a choice of developing Motif or OpenLook style. Harlequin is a full member of the CLIM consortium and is supporting...

VAX/VMS capability. (Level 5 Object application development tool available for DEC VAX/VMS computers) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... VAX/VMS capability Level5 Object, an object-oriented application development tool based on the Level5 expert system shell, is available for DEC's VAX/VMS computers. It features full interoperability between Level5 Object for the VAX/VMS and...

Real-time inference engine. (object-oriented tool) (Product Announcement)
August 1, 1991... Real-time inference engine RTworks 2.0, a real-time, object-oriented inferencing tool written in C, is now available. RTworks combines real-time inferencing, GUIs, client/server data distribution across heterogeneous networks, and real-time...

BLOBs and fuzzy reasoning. (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... BLOBs and fuzzy reasoning Version 3.0 of KnowledgeMan and Guru is available, offering KGL, an enhanced fourth-generation programming language, and introducing binary large objects (BLOBs), user-defined functions (UDFs), and a compiler....

PCX graphics support. (expert system) (Product Announcement)
August 1, 1991... PCX graphics support VP-Expert 3.0, a rule-based expert system development tool, features PCX graphics support that lets the user incorporate photos, diagrams and drawings within expert applications. Other new features include: improved...

Diagnostic tool for Sun-4, JLE. (Japanese Language Environment) (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Diagnostic tool for Sun-4, JLE The I-CAT (Intelligent Computer-Aided Trouble-shooting) expert system diagnostic software package is now available on Sun-4 workstations. This release conforms with the standard Sun-4 operating system and the...

Prolog for UNIX workstations.
August 1, 1991... Prolog for UNIX workstations IF/Prolog 4.0.6 is available for Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000/700 series workstations under HP-UX 8.0 as part of a client/server strategy. IF/Prolog is a development and delivery environment for expert systems and...

Incremental compiler.
August 1, 1991... Incremental compiler Version 3.0 of G2, a software environment for building and deploying real-time expert system applications, includes enhancements in performance and run-time versions. G2 3.0 utilizes an incremental compiler, which enables...

Real-time development. (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Real-time development AGEL is a development environment covering all stages of real-time systems, from specification definition in the Esterel language to behavior simulation with graphic visualization, formal verification of behavior, and...

Neural workstations. (product announcement)
August 1, 1991... Neural workstations The SuperStation/PC and the SuperStation/SPARC are neural computing workstations installed with NeuralWorks Professional II/Plus. SuperStation/PC, which is based on an Intel 80486 chip, features an Alacron i860 board with...

Toolbox. (Neural Network Toolbox ) (Product Announcement)
August 1, 1991... Toolbox The Neural Network Toolbox has been announced for Version 4 of the Silicon Graphics IRIX operating system. It will run on Silicon Graphics computers, from Personal Iris workstations to POWER-vision project supercomputers. The toolbox...

Database mining. (database modeling system) (Product Announcement)
August 1, 1991... Database mining The DataBase Mining System is an intuitive database modeling system based on neural networks technology. It runs on a PC Windows or Sun UNIX platform, and its internal elements are portable to other standard host environments....

Nexpert/genetic algorithm bridge.
August 1, 1991... Nexpert/genetic algorithm bridge NET-Link+, a group of C functions, now contains a module for linking Nexpert Object, Neuron Data's expert system development tool, with genetic algorithms, a technology developed for search and optimization...

Mac module.
August 1, 1991... Mac module Optivolve is a genetic algorithm module which can be added to MacBrain, a Macintosh-based neural network package. Optivolve uses the genetic algorithm method of optimization to train neural networks quickly and accurately. ...