ISR: Intelligent Systems Report articles from September 1991

ISR: Intelligent Systems Report archives from September 1991

KnowledgeWare acquires IntelliCorp. (KnowledgeWare Inc.; IntelliCorp Inc.) (company profile)
September 1, 1991... An updated look at the Al shakeout KnowledgeWare acquires IntelliCorp On August 26, 1991, the AI shakeout reached a new peak. The long struggle for profitability has come to an end for IntelliCorp Inc. (Mountain View, CA), one of the...

Booz, Allen & Hamilton acquires ADS. (Booz Allen and Hamilton Inc.; Advanced Decision Systems) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Booz, Allen & Hamilton acquires ADS As noted in our cover story on the AI shakeout, Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. (Bethesda, MD), a management and technology consulting firm, has acquired Advanced Decision Systems Inc. (ADS) (Mountain View, CA),...

Sapiens relocates, signs deal with IBM. (Sapiens International moves to Cary, North Carolina; signs joint marketing agreement with International Business Machines Corp.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Sapiens relocates, signs deal with IBM Sapiens International, developer of the Sapiens expert system tool, has relocated its headquarters from London, England, to Cary, NC. The Sapiens product uses rule-based, object-oriented technology to...

MCC forms fuzzy standards project. (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. to develop a common runtime architecture for fuzzy technology) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... MCC forms fuzzy standards project The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) (Austin, TX) has formed a project to develop a common runtime architecture for fuzzy technology (CRAFT). The objective of this project will be to define...

LeadTEK to distribute for Franz in Taiwan. (LeadTEK Information Inc.; Franz Inc.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... LeadTEK to distribute for Franz in Taiwan Franz Inc. (Berkeley, CA) has signed LeadTEK Information Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan) as its distributor for Taiwan. LeadTEK will be responsible for sales, support and service of all Franz Lisp development...

Johnson Controls, Delta, HL&P turn to Symbolics. (Johnson Controls Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., Houston Lighting and Power Co. use products of Symbolics Inc.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Johnson Controls, Delta, HL&P turn to Symbolics Symbolics Inc. (Burlington, MA) has announced a number of applications developed in recent months using its Lisp-based hardware and software. Johnson Controls Inc. (Milwaukee, WI), for instance,...

Inference raises $5.5 million. (growth financing for Inference Corp.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Inference raises $5.5 million Inference Corp. (El Segundo, CA) has received $5.5 million in growth financing. This latest round of funding was led by JP Morgan Capital, and also included current Inference investors such as Ford Motor,...

Cognitive Systems reports profitable quarter. (earnings of Cognitive Systems Inc.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Cognitive Systems reports profitable quarter Cognitive Systems Inc. (New Haven, CT) had a productive second fiscal quarter, which ended May 31, 1991. The company made a net profit of $132,000, compared to a loss of $3,000 a year ago. However,...

NeuralWare names Gossman VP of sales and marketing. (NeuralWare Inc. names William M. Gossman vice president of sales and marketing) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... NeuralWare names Gossman VP of sales and marketing NeuralWare Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), a supplier of neural network development systems, have named William M. Gossman vice president of sales and marketing, thus completing the company's new...

Gemini Consulting stakes an equity claim in ParcPlace. (ParcPlace Systems Inc.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Gemini Consulting stakes an equity claim in ParcPlace ParcPlace Systems (Mountain View, CA), a supplier of object-oriented application development environments, and Gemini Consulting (Morristown, NJ), a strategic management consulting firm,...

Saber Software, SunSoft ink pact. (Saber Software Inc. signs agreement with SunSoft) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Saber Software, SunSoft ink pact Saber Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA), a developer of C and C++ UNIX programming environments, has signed an agreement with SunSoft (Mountain View, CA), the systems software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems. Saber...

Echelon signs development deal with Arthur D. Little. (Echelon Corp.; Arthur D. Little Inc.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Echelon signs development deal with Arthur D. Little Echelon Corp. (Palo Alto, CA) has signed Arthur D. Little Inc. (Cambridge, MA), a technology and management consulting firm, as the first independent developer of Echelon's intelligent...

ExperTelligence, Applie sign agreement. (ExperTelligence Inc.; Apple Computer Inc.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... ExperTelligence, Apple sign agreement ExperTelligence Inc. (Goleta, CA) and Apple Computer Inc. (Cupertino, CA) have formed an agreement for marketing each other's products. The shared goal of the two companies is to extend the use of the...

Cognition turns a profit. (Cognition Corp.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Cognition turns a profit Cognition Corp. (Billerica, MA) has reported record sales and profits for its most recent quarter, ending June 29, 1991. The company posted a profit of $267,000 on revenues of $759,000 for the quarter. John Hurd,...

DEC signs $3.5 million contract with Electrabel. (Digital Equipment Corp.) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... DEC signs $3.5 million contract with Electrabel Digital Equipment Corp. (Maynard, MA) has been awarded a contract by Electrabel, a Belgian electricity supplier, to provide systems and services that will network more than 250 users at the...

Neuron Data finds Japan is the land of "rising sums." (Neuron Data Inc. increases sales to the Japanese) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... Neuron Data finds Japan is the land of "rising sums" Neuron Data Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has announced that 15% of its revenues are from sales to the Japanese. The revenues come from both a direct sales office, opened in January, and a distributor...

IMKA effort shifts into high gear. (Initiative for Managing Knowledge Assets)(includes related article)
September 1, 1991... IMKA effort shifts into high gear As reported in last issue's AAAI '91 review (see ISR, August 1991), the Initiative for Managing Knowledge Assets (IMKA) has announced the availability of the functional specification for Phase 2 of its...

A look at real-time expert systems.
September 1, 1991... Applications in process control A look at real-time expert systems Expert systems have long been successfully used for advising companies in the running and scheduling of their operations, providing diagnosis of faulty systems, and the...

Neural network lends an ear. (Sound Linked Data Inc. upgrades hearing testing systems)(includes related article)
September 1, 1991... Neural network lends an ear In what could be the most commercial application of neural networks to date, Sound Linked Data Inc. (Mississauga, ON, Canada) has upgraded its MAX series of hearing testing systems using AI software to produce an...

CASE is still moving ahead. (technological discoveries in computer-aided software engineering)
September 1, 1991... CASE is still moving ahead Over 1,000 attendees gathered in Boston, MA, on Aug. 6-8 for the annual East Coast offering of CASE World. Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) continues to be a strong technological area in the information...

AI job bank is established. (International Association of Knowledge Engineers puts up an international, electronically-accessed job bank for artificial intelligence professionals) (Brief Article)
September 1, 1991... AI job bank is established An international, electronically-accessed job bank for AI professionals has been established by the International Association of Knowledge Engineers (IAKE) (Rockville, MD). Available to corporations, universities,...

Canadian Airlines turns to CASE. (Canadian Airlines International Ltd. implements a computer-aided software engineering solution in building its Canadian Plus frequent flier system)
September 1, 1991... Canadian Airlines turns to CASE Canadian Airlines International Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has implemented a CASE solution in building its Canadian Plus frequent flier system. The system was built with a reusable Information Engineering...

Understanding Neural Networks: Computer Explorations.
September 1, 1991... Understanding Neural Networks: Computer Explorations, by Maureen Caudill and Charles Butler, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, 2 volumes, 224 pages each, $29.95 each Understanding Neural Networks is a textbook and workbook that provides an...

Object-Oriented Methods.
September 1, 1991... Object-Oriented Methods, by Ian Graham, Addison-Wesley, 410 pages, $35.50 This book sets out to answer a number of questions, such as: What is object orientation? How can object-oriented methods be applied in analysis, design, programming, and...

Parallel Logic Programming.
September 1, 1991... Parallel Logic Programming, by Evan Tick, The MIT Press, 512 pages, $49.95 Highly parallel machines have been available for a number of years, but because advances in hardware have outpaced progress in software development, designers and users of...

CMU Computer Science: A 25th Anniversary Commemorative.
September 1, 1991... CMU Computer Science: A 25th Anniversary Commemorative, edited by Richard F. Rashid, Addison-Wesley, 519 pages, $43.25 In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Computer Science Department, a number of CMU...

How to reduce the expert's boredom. (knowledge acquisition process for building an expert system)
September 1, 1991... How to reduce the expert's boredom It has been said that those closest to a technology have a clouded view of where it is going. To put it simply, they can't see the forest for the trees. This situation tends to hold true in the case of a...