E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (02/22/86)
FROM: E1AR0002%SMUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Summary of Applied Intelligence, Volume 2 Number 4 December 1985 At the recent Instrumentation Society of America show in Philadelphia, four major vendors announced their intent to offer PICON, Lisp Machine Incorporated's real-time expert system, to their customers. Leeds and Northrup demonstrated the system in conjunction with their MAX 1 process control system. PICON is running at six customer sites. A large chemical processing company is using PICON in control The knowledge engineering was done by a process engineer who developed a 350-frame knowledge base in a period of two months. Oak Ridge International bought PICON for robotics and Lockheed bought it for CAD applications. PICON has been installed at the Texaco chemical plant in Port Arthur where it monitors several processes. It interfaces to a Honeywell TDC-2000 process control system. Pete Thompson is the Manager of Artificial Intelligence at Texaco's Computer and Information Systems Department. Lisp Machine Incorporated also announces the availability of ObjectLisp, a second generation approach to object-oriented programming. It directly invokes local functions within the context of the object and releases the programmer from having to define message-passing structures. ObjectLISP allows both object variables and object functions to be either created or deleted interactively without requiring recompilation. MCC has made its sixth order for Lambda hardware from LMI.