leff@smu.UUCP (Laurence Leff) (02/28/88)
Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4, No. 1
January 1988
Lead Article on 1988, the Vendor's Perspective
New Product from Artificial Intelligence Corporation:
Knowledge Base Management System, IBM mainframe environment with linkage
to IBM databases, written in C, can be combined with Intellect 400 to
give natural language capability
Bachman/Re-Engineering
New product to do reverse engineering of programs and is targetted at
maintenance. Completed third round of financing after market crash.
Symbolics gets 60% of its revenues from government and aerospace markets.
Symbolics will come out with a multi-processor, twenty-five times more
powerful than current systems.
DEC is now the leading vendor selling standard machines for AI use.
Units Sold to date for various companies:
Aion Corporation 550+
Artificial Intelligence Intellect 550
Gold Hill Computers
Goldworks 500+
Developer Series 1,700+
Golden Common Lisp 9,000+
Run-time Licenses 30,000+
Hummingboards 35-60 boards/month
Inference Corporation Art 700+
Neuron Data, Nexpert and Nexpert Object 1750+
Sterling Wentworth (Planman financial expert system, Next5 and BusinessPlan
Insurance Applications 1000
Symbolics 4000
Digital Equipment 5000 units for AI
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Expert Systems for End Users
Human Intellect Sells
a system to assist in connecting two RS-232 connectors
a tax consulting expert system to help decide how to recognize revenue
an expert system to help write a personnel policy for a business
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Review of Mind Path Technologies two videotape instruction system for
new users:
It help determine expert system
opportunities and then has a tutorial with an expert system shell or demo.
Cost is $495 with demo program or $795 with expert system shell included.
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Aion Corporation has granted McCormick and Dodge rights to use its expert
system shell.
Wisdom Systems sells an object-oriented design logic base with three-dimensional
shapes. It provides automatic bills of materials and manufacturing
work orders.
Digital Equipment is now selling an enhanced version of OPS5 that
allows interfacing to C and Ada.
Mind Path Technologies has developed an expert system for creating intelligent
electronic forms.
Franz Inc. has signed a contract to implement a Common Lisp on Cray
Supercomputers.
Knowledge Garden is selling a Stock Expert that includes the procedures
of the National Association of Investment Clubs.