ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from December 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from December 1991

Adam Osborne founds Noetics Software.
December 1, 1991... Back in the saddle again Adam Osborne founds Noetics Software Computer industry veteran Adam Osborne, creator of the first portable computer and founder of the now-defunct Paperback Software, has returned to the expert system frontlines...

KnowledgeWare lays off 200. (KnowledgeWare Inc.)
December 1, 1991... KnowledgeWare lays off 200 Hard times continue to plague CASE tool vendor KnowledgeWare Inc. (Atlanta, GA). In the wake of the collapsed acquisition agreement with IntelliCorp Inc. (Mountain View, CA) (see ISR, November 1991), and rocked by...

Nestor is on the ropes. (Nestor Inc.)
December 1, 1991... Nestor is on the ropes Nestor Inc. (Providence, RI), a developer of neural network software, has released a more-ominous-than-usual financial statement. For the first quarter of FY92, ended Sept. 30, 1991, Nestor reported a loss of $612,190,...

Gensym signs deal with Hungarian academy. (Gensym Corp.; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Computer and Automation Institute)
December 1, 1991... Gensym signs deal with Hungarian academy Gensym Corp. (Cambridge, MA) has signed a sales distribution agreement with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Computer & Automation Institute (Budapest, Hungary). The institute will market and resell...

Symbolics, Franz to develop CLIM 2.0. (Symbolics Inc.; Franz Inc.; Common Lisp Interface Manager)
December 1, 1991... Symbolics, Franz to develop CLIM 2.0 Symbolics Inc. (Burlington, MA) and Franz Inc. (Berkeley, CA) will jointly develop CLIM 2.0, a second-generation Common Lisp Interface Manager, through a cooperative code-sharing agreement. CLIM is a...

Ultimate forms a support technologies unit. (Ultimate Corp.)
December 1, 1991... Ultimate forms a support technologies unit The Ultimate Corp. (East Hanover, NJ), a supplier of information systems, database software and services, has formed the Ultimate Support Technologies (UST) business unit. UST, which is being formed as...

Acquired Intelligence develops intelligent tutoring system. (Acquired Intelligence Inc.)
December 1, 1991... Acquired Intelligence develops intelligent tutoring system Acquired Intelligence Inc. (Victoria, BC, Canada) has just completed a three-year contract with the Canadian Space Agency to develop a knowledge-based intelligent tutoring system,...

Reinstein leaves Aion. (Harry Reinstein; Aion Corp.)
December 1, 1991... Reinstein leaves Aion Harry Reinstein, chairman of Aion Corp. (Palo Alto, CA), has resigned from the company he helped found back in 1984. Reinstein and co-founder Larry Cohn had taken a backseat to new management a year ago when James Gagnard...

IBM, Ontos ink multimedia pact. (International Business Machines Corp.; Ontos Inc.)
December 1, 1991... IBM, Ontos ink multimedia pact IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY) has selected Ontos Inc. (Burlington, MA), a vendor of object-oriented database systems, as an industry application specialist (IAS) for the multimedia market. Ontos and IBM will jointly...

Verity, HP announce agreement. (Verity Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Co.)
December 1, 1991... Verity, HP announce agreement Verity Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (Palo Alto, CA) have announced a joint development agreement under which Verity will develop Topic intelligent document management products to be part of...

Saber Software becomes CenterLine Software. (Saber Software Inc.; CenterLine Software Inc.)
December 1, 1991... Saber Software becomes CenterLine Software Saber Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA), a developer of C and C++ programming environments for UNIX workstations, has changed its name to CenterLine Software Inc. In the process, it has changed the name of...

ParcPlace, Servio team up to integrate C++ products. (ParcPlace Systems Inc.; Servio Corp.; C++ program development software)
December 1, 1991... ParcPlace, Servio team up to integrate C++ products ParcPlace Systems Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and Servio Corp. (Alameda, CA) have signed a cooperative C++ agreement. The two companies will cooperatively market and integrate ParcPlace's...

S&S develops lathe cutting ES. (S&S Company Ltd.; expert system) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... S&S develops lathe cutting ES S&S Co. Ltd., a Japanese software company, has developed the Cutting Tool Advisor, an expert system which simulates lathe cutting processes. The product will be aimed at metalworking companies and tool makers. ...

Nishimatsu develops fuzzy logic system. (Nishimatsu Construction Company Ltd.) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... Nishimatsu develops fuzzy logic system Nishimatsu Construction Co. Ltd., in cooperation with Japan's Ministry of Construction, has developed a fuzzy logic control system for a tunnel excavation system. The system will be used with excavation...

IBM Japan develops voice system for the blind. (IBM Japan Ltd.) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... IBM Japan develops voice system for the blind IBM Japan Ltd. has developed a raised-character English/Japanese dictionary system for the visually handicapped. The system consists of a PS/55 PC, a Braille keyboard, a Braille (raised pin) output...

Shimadzu debuts AI-based spectrophotometer. (Shimadzu Corp.; artificial intelligence) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... Shimadzu debuts AI-based spectrophotometer Shimadzu Corp. has developed an AI-based automatic atomic absorption spectrophotometer, which measures metal concentrations in liquid solutions. The device enables the choice of either a burner or an...

Mitsubishi adds finesse to its inferencing capability. (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... Mitsubishi adds finesse to its inferencing capability Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed what it calls an "exceptional knowledge inference" function and has used the function in an expert system. The system, referred to as a large-scale...

Robot simulation software firm to be established. (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... Robot simulation software firm to be established Tecnomatix (Antwerp, Belgium), a software company, plans to establish a joint venture in Japan with Nihon Itec K.K. (Tokyo, Japan), an importer and marketer of computer graphics and CAD/CAM...

Catena to market English-to-Japanese translation product. (Catena Corp.) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... Catena to market English-to-Japanese translation product Catena Corp. has begun selling its Translator-Mini, an English-to-Japanese machine translation software package designed to run on economy models of Apple's Macintosh PC. The...

DSP board increases PC speed 1,000x. (digital signal processor; personal computer) (News from Japan)
December 1, 1991... DSP board increases PC speed 1,000x The Nagoya Institute of Technology has developed a digital signal processor (DSP) expansion board which reportedly can increase the speed of a PC by 1,000 times. Such performance would be of particular...

PC therapist wins first Turing Test prize. (Joseph Weintraub)
December 1, 1991... PC Therapist wins first Turing Test prize Joseph Weintraub, president of Thinking Software Inc. (Woodside, NY), was the winner of the first annual Loebner Prize Competition, which featured a restricted version of the Turing Test of machine...

Inegrated intelligence for manufacturing. (AutoFact '91 Review)
December 1, 1991... AutoFact '91 review Integrated intelligence for manufacturing A drive toward implementing expert systems in manufacturing facilities is being influenced by two factors, according to Larry Oliva, operations program manager for Sun...

Expert system 'sniffs out' network problems.
December 1, 1991... Expert system "sniffs out" network problems The Expert Sniffer, developed by Network General Corp. (Menlo Park, CA), is an expert system-based technology that automatically identifies network problems and recommends solutions to network...

Speech system helps automate radiology.
December 1, 1991... Speech system helps automates radiology A speech-controlled computer system for preparing radiology reports has been integrated with a program that automates the activities of a radiology practice. The speech recognition component of the...

Japan's Fifth-Generation Project ends as a disappointment.
December 1, 1991... Japan's Fifth-Generation Project ends as a disappointment Japan's Fifth-Generation Computer Systems Project, which began in 1982 with a 10-year schedule, has ended with less than stunning results. Now in its last year, the project still only...

Speech recognition: it's as easy as uno, dos, tres.
December 1, 1991... Speech recognition: It's as easy as uno, dos, tres Telefonica de Espana S.A. (Madrid, Spain), the Spanish telephone company, has developed a Spanish-language speech recognition system. A caller will be able to access business information by...

Case-based reasoning. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Case-based reasoning CBR Express/MVS 1.2 is an application shell of C-based ART-IM/MVS 3.5, a expert system development tool. It allows expert system applications, such as help desks, engineering design systems, and executive information...

ES Shell. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... ES shell Mentor is a new PC-based expert system shell for development of expert applications. It comes with an editor, a compiler, diagnostic utilities, and documentation. Its features include backward and forward chaining, a procedural...

Help desk tool. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Help desk tool Expert Advisor 2.1 is a help desk automation tool which offers both hypermedia and expert systems support. It includes facilities for call management, problem tracking, problem routing, problem determining, and management...

Knowledge management tool. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Knowledge management tool MindFrame 3.0 is an AI knowledge manager that integrates text and graphics. Users can create a knowledge base that generates rules and organizes a variety of data. Vertical and horizontal linking provide...

System 7 compatibility. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... System 7 compatibility Entrypaq Professional 3.0, an expert system shell that allows users to create intelligent software, is now fully compatible with Macintosh System 7. Taking advantage of the new features of HyperCard 2, Entrypaq now...

Embedded intelligence. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Embedded intelligence Knowledge Shop is a C++ based knowledge system development tool designed for building and embedding intelligent decision-making ability into a program. It uses an intuitive, object-oriented approach that requires no...

Case-based spreadsheets. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Case-based spreadsheets Induce-It is a tool that creates case-based expert systems from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet databases. These case-based spreadsheets execute within Excel and may be exported to other spreadsheet systems. Developing an...

Modifiable application shells. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Modifiable application shells BugQ and CustomerQ are two Prolog-based modifiable application software shells, created utilizing Quintus WorkPro client/server development tools. The BugQ application shell was designed to coordinate queue...

Knowledge acquisition system. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Knowledge acquisition system Acquire is a knowledge acquisition system and expert system shell designed for direct use by domain experts. Its structured approach to managing knowledge acquisition and its focus on pattern recognition as the...

Common Lisp development system. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Common Lisp development system The Star Sapphire Common Lisp 3.2 Development System provides an environment for debugging, writing, and running common Lisp programs on a PC. The 3.2 version has been revised for conformance with the proposed...

Linear programming interface. (Expert System Tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Linear programming interface An interface between the Exsys Professional expert system shell and the Lindo linear programming tool incorporates non-numeric constraints and heuristics with linear programming optimization. Exsys can analyze data...

Spreadsheet option. (Neural Networks) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Spreadsheet option NeuroSheet, an option for the NeuroShell neural network development tool, allows a spreadsheet user to mark rows and columns to be presented to the neural network inside his own spreadsheet. NeuroSheet acts upon the...

IEW link. (CASE) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... IEW link Visible Analyst Workbench 4.2 features the capability to link with KnowledgeWare's IEW CASE tool. Data from the IEW encyclopedia can be directly imported into the Visible Analyst Workbench repository. All items supported by the...

OS/2 development tool. (GUI tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... OS/2 development tool The Open Interface graphical user interface (GUI) development tool is available for the IBM OS/2 2.0 operating system. Open Interface is a tool for building GUIs that are instantly portable across OS/2, DOS, UNIX,...

Portable database interface. (GUI tools) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... Portable database interface Smalltalk\SQL, a portable database interface for Smalltalk, works in conjuction with Object-work\Smalltalk to enable GUI applications to access information stored in relational databases. Direct database support is...

SQL database interface. (OOPS) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... SQL database interface Actor 4.0 object-oriented programming platform includes an object-oriented interface to SQL databases. A set of Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) provide access to Paradox, dBASE and Excel files. Users can also purchase DLLs...

NASA develops an ES to develop robots. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration; expert system)
December 1, 1991... NASA develops an ES to develop robots NASA has developed the Automated Robotic Truss Assembly Program (ARTAP), a knowledge-based expert system for earth-based research on the robotic assembly of large truss structures in space. This research is...