karl@grebyn.COM (Karl A. Nyberg) (04/06/88)
[Ed. forwarded mail. Disclaimer: I happen to be involved with this project.] Date: Tue, 5 Apr 88 17:38:58 cst From: ctvax!mark (Mark L. Miller) To: karl Subject: Ada-based ES Shells Karl, In response to Fred Yu's inquiry, you might want to pass along the following information. Computer * Thought Corporation (in Plano TX) has been working on an Ada-based version of the S.1 Expert System tool, under contract to Teknowledge. This is a large, EMYCIN-style system currently available in a C-based version, and previously sold in a LISP-based version (which is no longer supported). This conversion effort has the goal of supporting the delivery of rule-based systems written using the S.1 Development System, without modification, on an all-Ada platform. The only changes that users would be expected to make would be that any user extensions written in C would (of course) need to be re-written in Ada. This project has been underway for some time, and has turned out to be more difficult than was originally anticipated. However, recently the Ada-based version has reached the level of being able to load and execute some existing knowledge bases. Not all features of the tool are fully operational at this time. Real-time issues have not been addressed. For further information, contact Mark Miller at C*T (214/424-3511, ctvax!mark on UUCP). [Ed. Those of you on DDN can get there via grebyn!ctvax!mark@umd5.umd.edu.]