ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from March 1992

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from March 1992

Symbolics to phase out hardware business. (computer hardware)
March 1, 1992... Continuing one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in the AI industry, one coincident with the collapse of the Lisp machine market, Symbolics Inc. (Burlington, MA) has once again restructured itself. The company has sold its graphics...

Cimflex Teknowledge resuscitates M.1. (expert system development tool industry)
March 1, 1992... News briefs Cimflex Teknowledge (Pittsburgh, PA), which all but disappeared from the expert system marketplace three years ago following the merger of American Cimflex and Teknowledge, has announced a reincarnation of its M.1 expert system...

Lucid, Harlequin team up to launch CLIM 2.0. (version 2.0 of the Common Lisp Interface Manager)
March 1, 1992... Lucid Inc. (Menlo Park, CA) and Harlequin Ltd. (Cambridge, England) will team up to introduce version 2.0 of the Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) to market. The two companies also intend to share all code with Symbolics Inc. (Burlington, MA)...

Nestor reports another losing quarter.
March 1, 1992... Nestor Inc. (Providence, RI), a publicly-held neural network company, is still in the financial doldrums. The company, which was delisted from the NASDAQ exchange for lack of activity, has posted another quarterly loss, this time $628,000, or...

DEC, Natural Language sign reseller agreement. (Digital Equipment Corp.)
March 1, 1992... Digital Equipment Corp. (Maynard, MA) and Natural Language Inc. (NLI) (Berkeley, CA) have signed a reseller agreement allowing DEC to distribute Natural Language, NLI's English access querying tool, internally and to customers worldwide. DEC has...

Togai inks fuzzy pact with Siemens. (Togai InfraLogic Inc.; Siemens AG)
March 1, 1992... Togai InfraLogic Inc. (Irvine, CA) has signed a cooperative agreement with Siemens AG (Munich, Germany), one of the world's leading suppliers of industrial and process automation technologies, to develop and apply fuzzy logic technology. The goal...

CenterLine receives $2.5 million, signs CASE deals. (CenterLine Software Inc.; CaseWare Inc.)
March 1, 1992... CenterLine Software Inc. (formerly Saber Software) (Cambridge, MA), a developer of UNIX-based C and C++ programming environments, has received $2.5 million in venture capital. The company's growth plans include funding new products and expanding...

ParcPlace Systems, Rational sign agreement. (integration and marketing of software products)
March 1, 1992... ParcPlace Systems Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and Rational (Santa Clara, CA) have agreed to cooperatively integrate and market their products. The agreement joins ParcPlace's Objectworks\C++ release 3 development tools with Rational's Rational Rose...

ALPNET posts modest profit.
March 1, 1992... Flying in the face of both the recession and the AI shakeout, ALPNET Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT), a vendor of machine translation products, posted revenues for 1991 of $23.1 million, with a profit of $373,000, or $0.028 per share. Revenue growth...

MKS to develop chemical software manual. (Molecular Knowledge Systems Inc.)
March 1, 1992... Molecular Knowledge Systems Inc. (MKS) (Nashua, NH) has been subcontracted by OLI Systems Inc. (Morris Plains, NJ), a vendor of computer software for simulation of aqueous/environmental processes, to develop a significant portion of the work on a...

Gensym signs deal with RUST International, expands into Canada.
March 1, 1992... Gensym Corp. (Cambridge, MA), developer of the G2 real-time expert system tool, has been selected to provide the expert system technology for RUST International's Enterprise Integration Center (Birmingham, AL). The Center will demonstrate how the...

SRI International forms Pocket Intelligence Forum. (monitors and provides information on pocket intelligence products)
March 1, 1992... SRI International (Menlo Park, CA) has formed a Pocket Intelligence Forum to monitor and provide information on the technologies, applications and markets of pocket intelligence products such as notebook, hand-held, palmtop, and pentop computers,...

IntelliCorp, James Martin team up.
March 1, 1992... Launching the first new trend in intelligent systems for 1992, IntelliCorp Inc. (Mountain View, CA), a vendor of Lisp- and C-based expert system development tools, and James Martin & Co. (Reston, VA), a CASE consulting group, have announced plans...

The CASE community fights on. (computer-aided software engineering)(includes related article on the case for CASE)
March 1, 1992... CASE World '92 review Overcoming a generally depressed economic climate, media bashing and rainy weather, the 1992 CASE World show provided a vital sign that CASE (computer-aided software engineering) still exists and prospers. Approximately...

Intelligent system balances rotors in one shot. (rotors in large stem turbine generators; General Electric's Research and Development Center)
March 1, 1992... General Electric's Research and Development Center (Schenectady, NY) has developed an intelligent system to balance rotors in large steam turbine-generators. The software program, which runs on IBM-compatible laptops, allows GE field service...

Neural nets predict stock returns. (neural network-based stock market prediction system developed by Wallace-Anthony Investment Management Inc.)
March 1, 1992... Wallace-Anthony Investment Management Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA), an investment advisory firm, has developed a neural network-based stock market prediction system based on the Standard and Poor's index. The company was founded by Tony Sawin and...

Target aims for helpdesk support. (Dayton Hudson Corp.'s Target Stores' expert system helpdesk shell)
March 1, 1992... Target Stores (Minneapolis, MN), a large retail store chain, has enhanced its technical support hotline for employees with an expert system helpdesk shell. The system is designed to automate the 20,000 technical support calls Target receives each...