E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (Leff, Southern Methodist University) (11/09/87)
Summary of the Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence October 1987, Volume 3, No. 10 The lead story is on Financial Expert Systems: A survey of insurance and companies show that 21 per cent are using expert systems with 20 per cent having no activity and the others in various stages of development or research. For banks, the figures are 12 and 47 per cent respectively. The article gives information on management attitudes, uses and comparisons of activity in property and casualty and life insurance, use of PC's, mainframes and lisp machines and type of language. (^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^(^ Review of video tape classes on expert systems, "AI Masters" by Addison-Wesley. This set has courses given by Patrick H. Winston, Randall Davis and J. Ross Quinlan. The training aid has work books and a simple PC expert tools. The workbooks have checklists to be used in tool and application selection and test. The training system maligns, perhaps due to datedness, PC-based expert systems and induction tools. The three courses run for $2500-$3500 apiece with additional workbooks for $10.00 a piece. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Programs in Motion's Fusion allows user to put in examples and generate production rules. The system can accept an example matrix of 32 factors and 32 resultsants and up to 255 different examples to generate rules. (There can be more than 255 cases if some of the cases are redundant.) The system does allow chaining of the decision rules. Fusion can generate C, Pascal and production code and read in dBase files. (_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ shorts: Symantec Corporation has merged with THINK technologies. Digitalk has released a new version of Smalltalk/V with high resolution object oriented programming for IBM PS-2/25 and 30 computers. Cognitive Systems, Inc. has developed a system to read messages and route them to the appropriate people in a bank. Teknowledge has been awarded a $1.2 million contract for work on Pilot's Associate. U. S. Army is purchasing ART plus various services from Inference Corporation (more than $3 million worth) Palladian Software has sold its Operations Advisor to Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Odetics got a contract to apply AI to residual heat removal in nuclear power plants. Gold Hill Computer has signed a distriubtion agreement with Computer Engineering and Consulting of Japan. System Research and Development Co. of Tokyo has developed a new expert system building tool called ESPARON. _)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_) Discussion of the Gigamos vs. Gensym dispute. Gigamos and Gensym are both headed by former leaders of LMI who sold all assets to Gigamos. Gigamos charges Gensym with using trade secrets and confidential information to develop a new expert system for real time applications (G2) in competitition with Gigamos. Gigamos charges Gensym founders with "planning to resign from LMI and to use LMI proprietary information in the new GENSYM business venture." They also accuse Gensym of causing other LMI resignations helping defeating LMI financing. Gigamos is asking for a copy of the software and source code to be depositth g