leff%smu@RELAY.CS.NET (11/20/86)
From the report on the IEEE Annual Briefing for the Media James A. Sprowl of the Illinois Institute of Technology is developing an auotmated client interviewing and legal document assembly system which automated wills, contracts, pleadings and others. It is designed to assist nonspecialized attorneys. __________________________________________________________________________ Robert L. Degenhart AT&T Bell Labs, 201 - 564-4091 Bell Labs has developed an IC chip containing 256 electronic neurons. It contains 25,000 transistors, 100,000 resistors on 1/4 square inch of silicon. Retrieval speed is 400 nanoseconds and anticipate their use in image processors. Neural networks permit greater chip density and require fewer layers of lithography. They have been able to fabricate chips with one tenth of a micron features. __________________________________________________________________________ From Lisp Machine Inc They have marketing TI's Explorer along with PICON a real-time expert system application package and IKE, a consultation style expert system. PICON achieves 200 rule frames/seconds in 2000 rule systems. They project 1000 rule frames/second in 10,000 rule systems by the end of 1987. __________________________________________________________________________ From Knowledge Engineering, 274 West 12th Street, PO Box 366, Village Station, New York, New YOrk 10014-0366 They are marketing a review of AI market resources for $47.50. They also publish a Knowledge Engineering Newsletter for $275.00 a year. __________________________________________________________________________ From Phillip G. Ryan Public Relations Release arguing that AI provides a career opportunity for MIS Managers. Provides a rating form for a person's company to see how it stands competitively in applying AI to their needs. This was publicity for Software People Concepts Inc. and AI Services Company. Also another one publicizing the same two companies saying that 40 percent of the largest 500 companies are actively pursuing AI but that it's not MIS people doing the work. They are also publicizing Halbrecht Associates arguing that demand for expert systems developers is high but that there is practically no demand for "natural language, speech input/output, vision systems, automatic theorem proving, automatic programming and super computing" Companies are turning to traditional software engineers to do their expert systems.