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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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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. __________________________________________________________________________ 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