ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from November 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from November 1991

IntelliCorp, KnowledgeWare cancel merger.
November 1, 1991... In a stunning move sure to send shockwaves throughout the intelligent computing industry, the acquisition of expert system tool vendor IntelliCorp Inc. (Mountain View, CA) by CASE tool vendor Knowledge Ware Inc. (Atlanta, GA) has been...

Lucid retrenches with its Common Lisp. (reacquires rights market to Sun Common Lisp)
November 1, 1991... Lucid Inc. (Menlo Park, CA), a supplier of Common Lisp on UNIX systems, has acquired exclusive rights to Sun Common Lisp, formerly marketed by SunPro (Mountain View, CA), a Sun Microsystems business. To be more precise, Lucid has reacquired...

Multimedia products proliferate.
November 1, 1991... Multimedia - the marriage of text and data with audio and visual information (e.g., speech, music, still images, and full-mition video) - has assumed a major role in today's intelligent computing environment. The present market of $4.2 billion,...

Real-time applications abound. (G2, a real-time expert computer system)
November 1, 1991... DuPont (Wilmington, DE) has chosen the G2 expert system development tool from Gensym Corp. (Cambridge, MA) as its worldwide guideline for developing and deploying expert system applications for process operator decision support and process...

US Army turns to CASE. (computer-aided software engineering)
November 1, 1991... The US Army has begun implementing computer-aided software engineering (CASE) solutions to reduce the time required to design, develop and maintain its computer systems. For instance, standard computer systems for the US Army Materiel Command...

The importance of managing ES programs. (Expert System Programs)
November 1, 1991... The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs was held Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1991, in Alexandria, VA. The show drew about 150 people, with representatives from Japan, Korea, Canada, the UK, France, Germany,...

Expert system development in Australia.
November 1, 1991... Australia is at a similar stage that the US and Europe were at a few years ago. Expert system developers and users only declare their expert systems in use if it suits them, hiding developments which are risky or perceived to give them a...

A look at virtual reality. (basis for new human/computer interfaces)
November 1, 1991... Virtual reality (VR), the basis for a new generation of human/computer interfaces, is the latest advanced computing technology to ascend to buzzword status. As AI achieved its early notoreity thanks to computerized chess players, VR has entered...