[mod.ai] Spang Robinson Report, October 1986

E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (10/14/86)

Summary of Volume 2 No 10

Discussion of S.1, ART, KEE discussing user interface, performance, features.
A common problem was done in all three applications.  The person who did
the evaluation started the exercise with the impression that one was
best off starting in scratch.  This was changed after the evaluation was
completed.

Also includes a two page table giving features, operating system and
cost for various expert system building tools including micro-based tools
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Japan Watch

MITI has budgeted the following for AI type products

$400,000    diagnosis support systems
2.4 million robotics
1.1 million language translation systems
$234,000    factory automation R&D

The Patent Office has budgeted $162,330 for machine translation

The National Police Agency will be putting $150,000 on automated voice
  recognition
$84,400 for recognition systems
$84,400 for graphology systems

The National Agency of Science and Technology budged 1.9 million on a
machine translation system

The Ministry of Agriculture and Foresty is doing research on expert systems
in agricultural production control
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Short Notes

Cognitive Systems quarterly revenues were $585,000 with a loss of $31,000
Frey Associates which sells THEMIS, a natural language product, made
$102,820 on revenues of $1,408,529 in the last quarter
Intellicorp expects a substantial loss this quarter.

Dr. Robert Moore, previously of Lisp Machine Co, is now president of
GENSYM, which anticipates doing work in real time applications of AI.

Eloquent Systems Corporations has produced an expert system for
hotels, motels, etc. to optimize occupancy and profits.  It runs on
an Explorer with a special card for multi processing.

Sperry has developed expert systems for configuring shipboard software
systems, a Tactical Information System for monitoring reports of ship and
aircraft locations, testing PC boards, correlating
contact reports for the NAVY and a system software diagnosis system.

Sanders Associates is undertaking a Defense Department Study to
set standards for developing AI systems.  DOD expects to release a set
of AI software development standards within three to five years.

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Reviews of

Applications of Artificial Intelligence III, proceedings of SPIE's
conference in Orlando


Expert System 85, Fifth Technical Conference of the British Computer Society's
Sppecialists Group on Expert Systems

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, which includes most of the Articles
of Workshop on Artifiicial Intelligence and Statistics, April 1985

Artificial Intelligence with Statistical Pattern Recognition

Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the LISP Machine