E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET.UUCP (03/27/87)
Spang Robinson Report, Volume Number 3, March 1987, Summary Thereof The main article discusses AI and Database Technology with the results of an interview with James Neiser of Ashton. Ashton Tate is going to be concentrating non-AI decison-rules with natural language and expert systems to be considered later. The newsletter also includes a two page table listing various company's plans and products in the database-AI integration area. Other items of note in this article include: Symantec has sold 40,000 copies of their system which is a data base system with natural language. Cullinet has agreed to acquire the company selling a COBOL based expert system shell Man-Machine systems is marketing G-Base for the LMI Lambda and TI explorers which allows the interfacing of LISP and PROLOG to the database IBM has created a natural language and Prolog front end to SQL. __________________________________________________________ New Applications of Expert Systems: Cannon - copier maintenance system Ishikawajima Heavy Industry- engine failure analysis system Yasukawa Electric Manufacturing System - large crane analysis system Iwai Mechanical Industry - plant failure analysis sytem Technical Collaborates - expert system for architects in the area of disaster/ safety regulations (in planning) Takenaka Engineering - construction, surveying, (in development) __________________________________________________________ Shorts Fuji Xerox will be distributing PARC Smalltalk in Japan and ASR will be marketing ExSys in Japan. Medical Information Systems has a network allowing people to use medical expert systems that is accesible via Fujitsu's VAN service. Level Five Insight 2+ can access DBase II files. The Senior marketer at Applied Expert Systems, Richard Karash, has left. Larry Geisel is leaving the Carnegie Group CEO position possibly to start another company. __________________________________________________________ The newsletter also contains a review of the recent IEEE conference on AI applic ations. Also reviews of the CRI Directory of Expert Systems and SEAI's Expert Systems 19 86: An Assessment of Technology and Applications.