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 ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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.