ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from July 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from July 1991

Australian import looks for US market. (Neuronic Reasoning Machine)
July 1, 1991... Australian import looks for US market Claiming a distinctive computing structure that is modeled on the human brain and called a Neuronic Reasoning Machine (NRM), Australian inventor Tony Richter is in the process of moving to the US to...

KnowledgeWare, IntelliCorp discuss a merger. (KnowledgeWare Inc.; IntelliCorp Inc.)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... KnowledgeWare, IntelliCorp discuss a merger KnowledgeWare Inc. (Atlanta, GA) and IntelliCorp Inc. (Mountain View, CA) jointly issued a brief press release stating that they are engaged in preliminary discussions which could lead to a business...

Kurzweil AI receives DOD contract for speech systems. (Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence Inc. receives contract from Department of Defense)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... Kurzweil AI receives DOD contract for speech systems Kurzweil AI Inc. (Walthman, MA) has been awarded a $500,000 contract by the US Department of Defense for its VoiceRAD speech-controlled radiology reporting systems. The sale was made to SAIC...

Scientia merges with Procyon. (News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... Scientia merges with Procyon Scientia Ltd (Cambridge, UK) has acquired UK Lisp vendor Procyon Research Ltd and moved its headquarters to St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge. Scientia has relied on the Procyon Common Lisp programming...

IBM, Neuron Data sign joint technology pact. (International Business Machines Corp. and Neuron Data Inc. enter into joint technology development contract)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... IBM, Neuron Data sign joint technology pact Neuron Data Inc. (Palo Alto, CA), developer of the Nexpert Object expert system development tool, has entered into a joint technology development agreement with IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY). The two...

Thomson, ILOG to comarket expert system. (Thomson-CSF)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... Thomson, ILOG to comarket expert system Thomson CSF (Paris, France) and ILOG (Gentilly, France) have signed a cooperation agreement to industrialize and market a real-time expert system shell prototype. The shell, XRete, was developed by the...

Saber Software, ICS ink deal. (Saber Software Inc. and Integrated Computer Solutions Inc. sign cooperative marketing and product integration agreement)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... Saber Software, ICS ink deal Saber Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has signed a cooperative marketing and product integration agreement with Integrated Computer Solutions Inc. (ICS) (Cambridge, MA) to target C software developers. The two...

Cognex, Nikon agree to machine vision deal. (Nikon Inc. will purchase machine vision systems from Cognex Corp.)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... Cognex, Nikon agree to machine vision deal Nikon Inc. (Melville, NY) will purchase machine vision systems from Cognex Corp. (Needham, MA) for use in the Nikon VM-1 video measuring system. Terms of the OEM agreement were not disclosed. The...

Echelon books $1 million in sales. (Echelon Corp.)(News briefs) (Brief Article)
July 1, 1991... Echelon books $1 million in sales Echelon Corp. (Palo Alto, CA), developers of the Neuron Chip, has reportedly sold over $1 million worth of its LONBuilder product to over 50 customers. The LONBuilder Developer's Workbench is a key element of...

Empros emphasizes the power of expert systems. (Empros Systems International markets expert systems for electric utilities)
July 1, 1991... Empros emphasizes the power of expert systems Empros Systems International (Plymouth, MN) has developed and customized a number of expert system solutions for electric utilities. One such intelligent application, the Intelligent Alarm...

London Life develops nationwide client-server taxation ES. (London Life Insurance Co.; expert system)
July 1, 1991... London Life develops nationwide client-server taxation ES AICorp (Waltham, MA) has announced Cooperative Processing, a client/server approach to database management, in a move toward greater efficiency of corporate databases. Cooperative...

The ART of innovative applications. (applications of Inference Corp.'s ART and ART-IM program development software)
July 1, 1991... The ART of innovative applications A sizable percentage (43%) of the papers chosen for presentation at this year's Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI '91) conference share a common trait: They were all developed using ART or ARTIM...

Expert system development outpaces usage.
July 1, 1991... Expert system development outpaces usage Expert systems applications are being developed worldwide in steadily increasing numbers. This trend can be supported statistically. According to a recent international survey that I conducted, 85% of...

Knowledge engineering trends for the '90s. (International Association of Knowledge Engineers conference)
July 1, 1991... Knowledge engineering trends for the '90s The International Association of Knowledge Engineers (IAKE) held a special session as part of Avignon '91, an annual international expert system conference and exhibition held recently in Avignon,...

Introduction to Expert Systems: The Development and Implementation of Rule-Based Expert Systems.
July 1, 1991... Introduction to Expert Systems: This book is designed to address the needs of those who wish to understand and appreciate the fundamentals of rule-based expert systems and to successfully apply this methodology to real-life problems. The book...

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence.
July 1, 1991... Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: This book, by one of the leading fuzzy logic proponents, combines the related fields of neural networks and fuzzy systems at the theoretical level of first principles and the applications level of new adaptive...

Vision, Instruction and Action.
July 1, 1991... Vision, Instruction and Action This book describes an integrated intelligent system called Sonja that can take instruction, interpret its environment visually and play games (in this case, the video game Amazon) on its own. Sonja integrates...

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol.
July 1, 1991... The Art of the Metaobject Protocol The CLOS metaobject protocol is a high-performance extension to the Common Lisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, introduce...

Knowledge-assisted software engineering (KASE) program launched. (CASEWORKS Inc. forms corporate alliance program to set standard for development software engineering tools)
July 1, 1991... Knowledge-assisted software engineering (KASE) program launched CASEworks Inc. (Atlanta, GA), a developer of cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) development tools, has formed a corporate alliance program to help set the standard for...