ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from October 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from October 1991

IJCAI '91: a report from Sydney. (the 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.)
October 1, 1991... The 12th International joint Conference on Al (IJCAI '91) was held Aug. 24-30 in Sydney, Australia. The show featured: new signs of mature technology; a set of AI research papers (259 presented) second to none; workshops and tutorials that...

Moscom acquires Votan. (Moscom Corp.; telecommunication equipment industry) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... The AI shakeout continues to pick up momentum. Last month we saw IntelliCorp acquired by KnowledgeWare and Advanced Decision Systems acquired by Booz, Allen & Hamilton (see ISR, September 1991). The trend toward acquisitions shows no signs of...

Symbolics names Tarpey president and CEO. (Symbolics Inc.; Kenneth J. Tarpey) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Symbolics Inc. (Burlington, MA) has promoted Kenneth J. Tarpey to president and CEO, replacing Jay S. Wurts, who will retain the position of chairman. Tarpey had been the company's vice president of customer service for two years. Tarpey will...

Cybertek-Cogensys has a busy summer. (Cybertek-Cogensys Corp. becomes a sales agent for Star Banc Corp.) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Cybertek-Cogensys Corp. (San Diego, CA) has been authorized by Star Banc Corp. Cincinnati, OH) to be the sales agent for the bank's expert system, which evaluates the credit worthiness of credit card applicants. Star Banc has used...

DEC to provide ADS training. (Digital Equipment Corp. trains Aion Development System personnel) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Digital Equipment Corp. (Maynard, MA) has made the Aion Development System (ADS) from Aion Corp. (Palo Alto, CA) the latest educational offering in its Knowledge Engineering Fastrak Curriculum. As expected, the news came on the heels of DEC's...

Black River Systems, Telescan announce expert stock service. (Telescan Inc.) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Stock forecasts and analyses from the Macro' World expert financial analysis system are now being offered to users of Telescan's (Houston, TX) on-line investment service. Macro*World, developed by Black River Systems (Winston-Salem, NC),...

Wisdom Systems ports to Intergraph platform. (Bailey Controls Co. Wisdom Systems Inc.; Intergraph Corp.) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, AL) has ported Concept Modeller software from Wisdom Systems (Pepper Pike, OH) into its RISC-based systems. Additionally, Wisdom Systems is developing a link between the Concept Modeller and Intergraph's...

MMS spun off as medical/virtual reality company. (VPL Research Inc. creates Medical Media Systems) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... VPL Research (Redwood City, CA), a developer of virtual reality products, is spinning off a start-up company called Medical Media Systems (MMS). The firm is now in its initial phase and functioning as a unit within VPL. MMS will apply...

Oberon, Toyo ink pact. (Oberon Software Inc. and Toyo Information Systems Company Ltd. sign licensing and distribution agreement) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Oberon Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Toyo Information Systems (Osaka, Japan) have signed a distribution and license agreement for Oberon's Synchro Works object-oriented software environment. Toyo will pay Oberon $3 million for the rights to...

ParcPlace Systems to ship FACETS. (ParcPlace Systems Inc. ships fourth generation application development tool) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... ParcPlace Systems Mountain View, CA) has signed a distribution agreement and begun shipment of FACETS, a fourth generation language (4GL) application development tool from Reusable Solutions (Portland, OR) to be used Objectworks\Smalltalk. The...

Cimflex Teknowledge relocates corporate HQ. (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Cimflex Teknowledge, a developer of computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) products, has relocated its corporate headquarters and Factory Management and Control System Division to a 19,000 square foot facility in Pittsburgh, PA. The new site...

IRI supports IBM's Information Warehouse strategy. (Information Resources Inc.) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Information Resources Inc.(ORI) (Waltham, MA) has announced its support for IBM's Information Warehouse strategy, plans for an EDA/SQL interface, and the availability of a suite of executive and decision support products to fulfill key roles in...

Verity, Data General sign agreement. (Verity Inc.; Data General Corp.) (Brief Article)
October 1, 1991... Verity Inc. (Mountain View, CA) has signed an agreement with Data General Corp. Westborough, MA) under which Verity will port its Topic intelligent document retrieval system to the DG AViiON RISC-based servers under the DG/UX operating system....

Expert system clears up network faults. (Clearview T-1 Surveillence System)
October 1, 1991... Two large telecommunications companies Northern Telecom and GTE Data Services - have installed an expert system to improve the performance of their T1 wide-area digital transmission networks. Northern Telecom, a Canadian supplier of...

Family physicians develop voice recognition system. (San Bernardino County Medical Center's VoiceFM)
October 1, 1991... At San Bernardino County Medical Center, a 280bed tertiary care hospital in California, a new VoiceMED system is being developed for release in about a year. Called VoiceFM, it will permit voice reporting in family medicine, a speciality that...

Expert system provides quality control. (Cementos Diamante S.A.'s Expert Control system)
October 1, 1991... Cementos Diamante, S.A. (Bogota, Colombia), a South American cement manufacturer, has installed an expert system to help maintain optimum industrial operations through its on-line process control. Working with Nuevas Tecnologias, a Bogota-based...

An up-close look at CASE trends. (an interview with Johnny Long, senior member of the technical staff of Texas Instrument's Computer-Aided Software Engineering group in Dallas, Texas) (Interview)
October 1, 1991... Where do you see CASE technology heading in the next few years? Applications are making better use of graphical front ends, and that will certainly continue. Some of the application front ends we're seeing today are called "graphical'...

Expert systems at your service. (expert systems as niche market)(includes related article)
October 1, 1991... The use of expert systems to enhance customer service - particularly the diagnosis and maintenance of computer-based equipment - has become a definable niche market. Over two dozen US firms are actively involved in developing and supporting...

Volkswagen installs machine vision system to sort wheels. (Volkswagen Canada Inc.)
October 1, 1991... Volkswagen Canada Inc. (Barrie, Ontario, Canada) has installed a wheel-sorting system that uses machine vision to automatically identify wheels after casting and route them to the appropriate conveyor for further processing. The system was...

Expert systems and TQM. (total quality management)
October 1, 1991... One of the hot buzzwords being bandied about these days is TQM, for total quality management. TQM, according to Joe Coates, a futurist, consists of the following factors: quality must be the first goal; upper management needs to be the driver...