ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from January 1992

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from January 1992

1991: The year in review. (Editorial)
January 1, 1992... 1991 began with a bang - Operation Desert Storm - and ended with a whimper - the collapse of the Soviet Union. While turmoil on a global scale characterized the past 12 months, events were no less tumultuous for the intelligent computing...

Nestor launches pilot project with Mellon Bank. (Nestor Inc.) (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... Nestor Inc. (Providence, RI) has signed an agreement with Mellon Bank (Pittsburgh, PA) to implement a pilot project using Nestor's credit card Fraud Detection System (FDS), a neural network-based mainframe application. The system is designed to...

AlCorp acquires AlCorp Europe. (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... AICorp Inc. (Waltham, MA) has purchased its Netherlands-based affiliate, AICorp Europe, from Schroder Ventures, a venture capital firm. Schroder Ventures will receive 800,000 shares of AICorp common stock, worth approximately $5.6 million at...

Intellisystems obtains patent on multi-user expert system. (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... Intellisystems Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) has been issued a broad patent for its multi-user expert system. The company's Intellisystem integrates voice response technology with a rule-based expert system. Major clients include: Aldus, Apple,...

DEC expands training for Neuron Data tools. (Digital Equipment Corp.) (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... Digital Equipment Corp. (Maynard, MA) plans to expand its consulting and customer training services for the Nexpert Object expert system development tool, developed by Neuron Data (Palo Alto, CA). DEC will also provide training and consulting...

Talarian, Wind River Systems ink pact. (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... Talarian Corp. (Mountain View, CA) and Wind River Systems (Alameda, CA) have announced a joint technology and marketing agreement. Talarian will ports its RTworks real-time development tools to Wind River Systems' VxWorks real-time operating...

Centerline signs deal with Versant, Rational. (Centerline Software Inc.; Versant Object Technology Corp.) (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... CenterLine Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA), formerly Saber Software, has entered into cooperative marketing agreements with Versant Object Technology (Menlo Park, CA) and Rational (Santa Clara, CA). CenterLine will integrate its ObjectCenter...

AISI, Canon Sales form partnership. (Applied Intelligent Systems Inc.) (News Briefs)
January 1, 1992... Applied Intelligent Systems Inc. (AISI) (Ann Arbor, MI) has formed a strategic partnership with Japan-based Canon Sales Co. Inc. Canon Sales has agreed to acquire AISI vision computers and software for applications in semiconductor equipment...

GE's expert system improves jet engine designs. (General Electric)
January 1, 1992... General Electric's Research and Development Center (Schenectady, NY) has developed an expert system which is being used to increase the speed of design of new jet engines, electric motors, and other complex machines at GE plants across the US....

NEC, Omron develop fuzzy inference system. (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... NEC Corp. and Omron Corp. have jointly developed a fuzzy independence development support system software package for the 75X series of 4-bit microprocessors. The new software reportedly allows a fuzzy inference system to be developed in half...

Kodensha debuts Japanese-to-Korean software. (Kodensha Co. Ltd.) (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... Kodensha Co. Ltd., an Osaka-based software developer, has developed j Seoul, a PC-based Japanese-to-Korean machine translation software package. The package contains a 70,000 entry dictionary, Japanese, Korean and English word processing...

TI Japan, Secom-net sign CASE deal. (Texas Instruments Japan Ltd.) (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... Texas Instruments Japan Ltd. has announced an agreement with Secom-net, a Japanese systems integration and network services company, to cooperatively provide TI's Information Engineering Facility (IEF) CASE product with Secom-net's value-added...

Fuji Xerox develops error check software. (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. has developed an error-check software module for Japanese language word processors. The module uses a Japanese morpheme analysis technique that detects words and word groups which are not in an "analysis" dictionary. The...

LIFE working on a fuzzy voice recognition system. (Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research) (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... The Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research (LIFE), an organization affiliated with Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is developing a voice recognition system for use in robots. According to LIFE, the system...

Meidensha develops a voice synthesizer. (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... Meidensha Corp. has developed a voice synthesizer that can be used with PCs and word processors and can synthesize the sound of a word entered, via the keyboard, into the machines. The synthesizer uses a systematic sound synthesis method, which...

Toshiba develops neural net-based design system. (News from Japan)
January 1, 1992... Toshiba Corp. has developed a prototype LSI (large scale integration) design optimization system which uses both a neural network and an existing LSI system containing a circuit design module and an automatic logic synthesis module. A training...

Client/server environment. (expert system) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... TestBench 2.1 is a diagnostic expert system that now features client/server capabilities, as well as a Microsoft Windows release of the TestView portion of the tool. TestBench incorporates a development environment, TestBuilder, used by...

Case based reasoning capabilities. (expert system) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... ART-IM/MVS 3.5 is a mainframe-based expert system development tool that supports all IBM MVS mainframe environments, such as TSO/ISPF, CICS, IMS, and batch. The new release combines a set of development tools that includes five technologies...

Lisp blackboard extension. (expert system) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... GBB, a toolkit for developing blackboard-based AI applications, is now availbale on 386/486-based IBM-compatible computers running Procyon Common Lisp and either OS/2 or Microsoft Windows. GBB is an extension of Common Lisp and CLOS, and it...

Service application packages. (expert system) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... A number of new computer-aided intelligent service (CAIS) application packages have been developed for the service and maintenance industries. The Electronic Documentation package enables service personnel to access all technical information...

Prolog for windows. (program development software) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... Quintus 386 DOS Prolog for Windows, developed by Logic Programming Associates (LPA), is an interactive Prolog development environment that is fully integrated with Microsoft Windows 3.0. It supports incremental compilation to provide the speed...

Linkable object modules. (expert systems) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... Linkable Object Modules for the Exsys Professional expert system shell give the developer the ability to create customized versions of Exsys Pro Runtime to meet special situations. The modules allow the developer to: call the Exsys Pro...

Software driver. (neural networks) (Product Announcement)
January 1, 1992... NeuroWindows 2.0 is a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) of neural network functions that allows programmers to incorporate neural networks into their applications. The latest release adds fastlearning probabilistic neural networks to a library that...

IRMA interface.
January 1, 1992... A comprehensive took package supporting Arthur D. Little's Strategic Information Value Analysis (SIVA) and Associative Data Modeling (ADM) methodologies is available. The package includes Little's Information Resource Management Aid (IRMA), the...

Windows-based tool.
January 1, 1992... Envision is a Windows 3.0/Presentation Manager-based CASE development tool. Its flexible, object-oriented data repository supports multiple, custom and standard diagramming techniques. Its multiuser capability interactively manages and displays...

C++ development.
January 1, 1992... ObjectCenter 1.1 (formerly Saber-C++) is a UNIX programming environment for developing C++ programs. It integrates user extensible source-level debugging, a suite of graphical browsers, an incremental linker, and a run-time C++ error detection...

Team Programming environment.
January 1, 1992... Convergence/Team Engineering Environment is a multi-user, multi-repository team programming environment for ParcPlace Systems' ObjectWorks\Smalltalk. Convergence/Team's shared repository environment allows team members on different types of...

IMKA releases phase 2 for beta testing. (Initiative for Managing Knowledge Assets)
January 1, 1992... The Initiative for Managing Knowledge Assets (IMKA) has released for beta testing the second phase of the IMKA Technology. The enhancements to the technology were delivered in accordance with the original development schedule proposed by the...

Varian using an expert trouble shooter. (Varian Associates.)
January 1, 1992... Varian Associates (Palo Alto, CA), a supplier of equipment for manufacturing semiconductors, has implemented an expert troubleshooting system to provide better service for its customers worldwide. The company's customer support personnel are...