brinkley@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU ("James F. Brinkley") (12/31/88)
Does anyone know of any expert system shells that run on the Irises, especially the Personal Iris? We currently have a graphics program on an Iris 3020 that draws anatomical objects from slices. We are planning to get several Personal Irises and a 4D/70 to make that program run faster, but we'd like to couple it with a knowledge base of anatomy as well as a database so that we can create "intelligent" interactive student modules that will be able to display the anatomic objects differently depending on what the student knows. In talking to SGI I get the feeling that they are not really in the AI market, so we're thinking of getting a MACII/Microexplorer for the expert system, with remote procedure calls to the graphics program on the Iris. But I'd rather do it all on the Iris. I've looked at the Fall 1988 Geometry Partners directory and it looks like even Lisp isn't really available yet for the Personal Iris. Any pointers to current or planned implementations of Lisp or expert systems on the Personal Iris would be welcome. We are also interested in hypercard-like interfaces. THanks. Jim Brinkley Dept. Biological Structure University of Washington, Seattle