ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from June 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from June 1991

A guide to innovative applications. (Innovative Applications of AI conference in Anaheim, California)
June 1, 1991... A guide to innovative applications The range of innovative uses of AI is quite board and the manner in which such systems are developed and deployed varies a great deal, both across systems and over time. Since 1989 some of the best of these...

Inova files Chapter 11, Adaptive Solutions picks up the slack. (Chapter 11 bankruptcy) (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Inova files Chapter 11, Adaptive Solutions picks up the slack Adaptive Solutions Inc. (Beaverton, OR) will assume all responsibility for the design completion of the VLSI processor based on its CNAPS (Connected Network of Adaptive Processors)...

Talarian raises $1.25 million in VC. (venture capital) (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Talarian raises $1.25 million in VC Despite the tough times several AI companies have struggled through of late (witness, for instance, the fading fortunes of Syntelligence, Coherent Thought, Micro Devices, and now Inova), Talarian Corp....

Jane Klimasauskas leaves Neuralware. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Jane Klimasauskas leaves NeuralWare Jane Klimasauskas, co-founder of NeuralWare Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), has resigned her position as vice president of sales and marketing to form her own marketing and public relations firm, High-Tech...

Pacific Bell launches information technology group. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Pacific Bell launches information technology group Pacific Bell (San Francisco, CA) has named Eric Firdman to head a new information technology unit. Firdman's group will identify uses of information technology within Pacific Bell, as well as...

Nestor reports revenue growth. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Nestor reports revenue growth Nestor Inc. (Providence, RI), a publicly-traded neural network company, has reported a 60% revenue growth for the third quarter and nine months ending March 31, 1991. Nestor, which lost $2 million last year, is on...

Inference receives award from AT & T (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Inference receives award from AT&T Inference Corp. (El Segundo, CA) was cited by AT&T Network Systems Transmission Business Unit, Merrimack Valley Works (North Andover, MA) as a recipient of the AT&T Vendor Excellence Award. Inference was...

IBM finances MIT multimedia research. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... IBM finances MIT multimedia research IBM Corp. (White Plains, NY) has extended funding for multimedia technology research projects at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA). Multimedia technology allows sound, images, animation, and video to be...

Oxko launches expert system apprenticeship program. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Oxko launches expert system apprenticeship program The Oxko Corp. (Annapolis, MD) has launched a four-phase expert system apprenticeship program. In phase one, Oxko-developed expert system training is provided through such courses as...

Four firms team up to propose object management spec. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Four firms team up to propose object management spec Object Design Inc. (Burlington, MA), NCR Corp. (Dayton, OH), Hewlett-Packard Co. (Palo Alto, CA), and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Mountain View, CA) have joined forces to propose an object...

Object Design announces pre-release strategy. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Object Design announces pre-release strategy Object Design, meanwhile, has also announced a Software Developers' Pre-Release Program for the Windows 3.0 version of ObjectStore, its object-oriented database management system (ODBMS) software,...

Saber names Bingenheimer VP; moves to new HQ site. (J. Jeffrey Bingenheimer vice president finance and admin) (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Saber names Bingenheimer VP; moves to new HQ site Saber Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA), developer of Saber-C and Saber-C++ programming environments, has named J. Jeffrey Bingenheimer vice president of finance and administration. He had formerly...

CASEworks, Unisys ink deal. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... CASEworks, Unisys ink deal CASEworks Inc. (Atlanta, GA) and Unisys Corp. (San Jose, CA) have entered into an agreement whereby CASEworks will provide a specialized version of CASE: PM for Unisys' version of Presentation Manager running under...

Citibank relies on expert system for "help".
June 1, 1991... Citibank relies on expert system for "help" At Citibank's Network Development and Operations (Long Island City, NY), an intelligent help subsystem has been developed as a diagnostic aid to network operators. This expert system provides...

Object-oriented technology for multiprocessors in development.
June 1, 1991... Object-oriented technology for multiprocessors in development Object-oriented solutions will soon be achievable on a multiprocessor architecture, thanks to a recent three-way pact signed by Sequent Computer Systems Inc. (Beaverton, OR),...

Voice recognition software system developed.
June 1, 1991... Voice recognition software system developed IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY) and Dragon Systems (Newton, MA) have jointly developed VoiceType, a speech recognition system based on elements of the DragonDictate product line. DragonDictate allows...

Institutionalizing an expert system need not make you crazy!
June 1, 1991... Institutionalizing an expert system need not make you crazy! What good is an accurate, well-designed expert system if the users are not trained on how to utilize the system or the expert system is not maintained periodically and appropriately?...

Word associations a key to developing intelligent computer interfaces.
June 1, 1991... Word associations a key to developing intelligent computer interfaces A study of word association patterns - the relationships between words - could lead to the development of intelligent computer interfaces which would make computerized...

Expert system reduces offshore drilling costs in Norway. (includes related article)
June 1, 1991... Expert system reduces offshore drilling costs in Norway Two Norwegian oil companies - Total and Norsk Hydro - have combined their resources to develop the Offshore Directional Drilling Advisor (ODDA), an expert system for planning and...

Expert system offers daily stock analysis.
June 1, 1991... Expert system offers daily stock analysis Black River Systems (Winston-Salem, NC) is now offering its clients daily updates to its stock analysis expert system, allowing investors to research 2,500 publicly held companies on both the New York...

Expert system helps AT&T manage materials. (includes related article)
June 1, 1991... Expert system helps AT&T manage materials AT&T has developed the Expert Capacity and Material System (XCAM), an expert system which simplifies forecast evaluations for an AT&T manufacturing operation. XCAM was developed by AT&T Network Systems...

Intelligent monitoring tools. (Product Announcement)
June 1, 1991... Intelligent monitoring tools RTworks is a set of software tools for building realtime expert operator workstations. The workstations allow intelligent monitoring and control of complex, time-critical systems. Time-critical systems are used in...

Nexpert support for System 7. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Decision-support tool for AS/400 Factor, a finite capacity scheduling system, is available on IBM AS/400 hardware. Factor is a simulation-based, decision-support software tool. Factor for the AS/400 is compliant with IBM's Systems Application...

Decision-support tool for AS/400. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Nexpert support for System 7 Nexpert Object will support Apple Computer's System 7 operating system. Nexpert has been enhanced to take advantage of several key System 7 features, including Apple events, Edition Manager and the Data Access...

Expert voice system. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Expert voice system KDS/VOX is an expert voice system which permits expert knowledge or support to be provided interactively in spoken form over the telephone. An end user can call in using a regular touchtone phone and conduct an intelligent...

Database toolkit. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Database toolkit The Database Toolkit is available for KnowledgePro Windows, an expert system development tool. The toolkit lets developers create, modify and index large multi-user data files in dBase II, dBase IV or Clipper format with the...

Common Lisp for '486 PCs. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Common Lisp for '486 PCs Delphi Common Lisp Plus 2.0 (DCL+), a Common Lisp development environment, is available for Intel 80486-based PC machines with SCO operating system. DCL+ is already available on Motorola 680x0-based Sun and Cetia...

Software recycling tool. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Software recycling tool The PRODOC re/NuSys Workbench is available for the Sun SPARCstation, and supports the full system design, development and maintenance life cycle. It consists of the following seven components: Designer captures the...

CASE database. (Product Announcement)
June 1, 1991... CASE database CASEBASE 3.3, a PC-based source of information on CASE tools, features enhanced search capabilities, enhancements to its annotation feature, and an expanded information base. It contains indepth profiles of CASE products, along...

Dynamic link library. (Product Announcement)
June 1, 1991... Dynamic link library NeuroWindows is a neural network programming tool designed to work with Microsoft's Visual Basic 1.0. Neuro Windows is a Dynamic Link Library that builds neural network applications which perform a number of pattern...

Reporting and analysis tool. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Reporting and analysis tool PowerPlay is a reporting and analysis tool that delivers decision-level, summarized information in a hands-on graphical format. It allows users to access, manipulate and present information in an intuitive interface...

Natural language interface. (Brief Article)
June 1, 1991... Natural language interface Enhancements to Q&A 4.0 database and word processing software for the IBM PC includes advanced database power, direct access to corporate data, new application programming tools, an enhanced natural language...

Pen-based system. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Pen-based system The ISV-1 display tablet is a pen-based system that attaches to any desktop IBM PC or compatible using the ISA bus. Using a stylus or pen, users input information by writing directly on the tablet's horizontal screen, by...

OOP languages. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... OOP languages Actor 3.1 and Actor 3.1 Professional, object-oriented programming languages for the development of Windows applications, include the ObjectWindows graphics class library. Both now have support for dynamic link libraries (DLLs),...

Windows development environment. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... Windows development environment Realizer is an application development environment for Windows. It combines a structure superset of BASIC extended to access Windows object resources, a visual form tool and programmable application tools. The...

OCR vision system. (product announcement)
June 1, 1991... OCR vision system The Cognex 1600 Character Recognition System is a machine vision system that reads serial numbers from semiconductor wafers with accuracy approaching 100%. It uses a video camera to capture an image of each semiconductor...