eghbalni@spectra.COM (Hamid Eghbalnia) (05/12/89)
This is a purely a curiosity question. How are the "NN-type" companies doing? I suppose the underlying question is: Has anybody been able to use the technology to develop applications that has excited government or industry beyond just research? No negativism intended here. I was just thinking about some individuals comment in this newsgroup about NN's being in essence "statistical pattern recognition" (not that its bad), and so I thought to ask the question. Again, market success (or failure) is not necessarily a measure; I am just curios. | Reply to: nosc!spectra!eghbalni | | eghbalni@spectra.com | | Phone : (619)-931-5514 | |___________________________________________________________|
demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David E Demers) (05/15/89)
In article <159@spectra.COM> eghbalni@spectra.COM (Hamid Eghbalnia) writes: > This is a purely a curiosity question. How are the "NN-type" > companies doing? I suppose the underlying question is: Has > anybody been able to use the technology to develop applications > that has excited government or industry beyond just research? I just read that SAIC just received a $100 million contract to provide airports with bomb-sensing luggage-scanning devices based on neural nets. I believe the order was from the FAA. I don't have the article handy, it might have been in EETimes - definitely a trade publication - within the past week or so. SAIC, of course, is not primarily a NN company, but $100MM is a big chunk of business no matter who you are. Dave