leff@smu.UUCP (Laurence Leff) (09/18/88)
The Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence, August, 1988, Volume 4, No. 8 Lead Article is on the "New AI Industry" Revenue List Expert System Development Tools 1987 139 million 1989 278 million Natural Language 1987 49 million 1989 95 million Symbolic Processing Languages 1987 51 million 1989 145 million AI Services 1987 150 million 1989 336 million Symbolic Processors 1987 170 million 1989 161 million General Workstations 1987 81 million 1989 277 million Number of companies selling AI technology or applications 1986 80 1988 ~160 Discussions aof Carnegie Group, Inference, IntelliCorp, Teknowledge and Lucid (Lisp) Lucid revenues in 1988 were 1.4 million. ________________________________________ Neural Netowrks: Discussion of various neural network products. They have a 10,000 u9it installed base. It took 30 months to achieve 10000 units in Expert systems contrasted to 13 months for neural networks. MIT sent out 7000 copeis of the software in Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing. NeuralWorks published 1000 copies of its NeuralWare tool. They range from $195 to $2995.00 Neuronics hs sold 500 units of MacBrain, TRW sold 40 units but is third in dollar volume. ________________________________________ Hypertext and AI. CogentTEXT is a hypertext system embedded in Prolog. Each hypertext button causes execution of an apporpriate segment of Prolog code. This system is a "shareware" product. It can be obtained from Cogent Software for $35.00 (508 875 6553) ________________________________________ Third Millenium is a venture capital fund still interested in AI start ups (as well as Neural networks). )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Shorts: IntelliCorp reports profit of $416,000 for its fourth quarter. Lucid has a product called Distill! which will remove the develpment environment for the runtime execute. SUN renewed its on-goiing OEM agreement. Lucid has sold a total of 3000 products with 2000 went to SUN. CSK will be selling LUCID in Japan. Neuron Data has integrated Neuron OBJECT with ORACLE, SYBASE and Ingres. The interfaces cost $1000 each. KDS has released a version of an expert system shell with Blackboard. Logicware ported MPROLOG and TWAICE (expert system shell) to IRIS systems. Flavors TRechnology has introduced a system to real-time inference 10,000 rules in 10 milliseconds. A Japanese company ordered the product. Inference has ported ART to IBM mainframes and PC (under MS-DOS). The Spang Robinson Report has a two pag list of AI companies broken down into each of the following fields: Expert System Tools, Expert System Applications, Languages (e. g. PROLOG), natural language systems and hardware