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| Title: | Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence |
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| Moderator: | HERON::BUCHANAN |
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| Created: | Fri Jun 03 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Aug 04 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 442 |
| Total number of notes: | 1429 |
127.0. "More IJCAI INFORMATION" by HERON::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Wed Aug 16 1989 10:33
Printed by: Pat Roach Document Number: 008409
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I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 12-Aug-1989 00:21am ETE
From: DOUGLASS
DOUGLASS@AITG@MRGATE@DELOS@VBO
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TO: ROACH@A1NSTC
Subject: More IJCAI INFORMATION
From: AITG::CANDOR "Richard J. Candor, DTN 291-8052 11-Aug-1989 1240" 11-AUG-1989 12:42:48.06
To: @CAIM.DIS,@IJCAI89.DIS,@CCEVENT89.DIS
CC: CANDOR
Subj: IJCAI'89 BOOTH DESCRIPTION AND SYMPOSIA SCHEDULE
IJCAI'89 Cobo Conference Center
Detroit Hall, Detroit, MI. August 20-25, 1989
YOUR KEY TO INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS
INTEGRATING THE ENTERPRISE
Welcome to Digital's AI solutions at IJCAI'89. At the
conference, you will see a Digital environment that includes
a spectrum of products and applications that can bring efficient,
cost-effective, integrated AI solutions to your enterprise.
In the exhibit area, you will also find Complementary Solution
Organizations VAX products, specific industry applications,
new product information and updates on AI trends.
Digital Product Managers and Corporate Representatives will be on
hand to discuss real world, cost-effective, AI solutions for your
computing environment.
Experience The Digital Environment
DEMO STATION 1: VAX LISP Version 3.0, A Complete Common LISP
with a DECwindows-Based Programming Environment
* Development Environment
* Business Control Knowledge System
* Foxglove: Preventive Maintenance Scheduling
DEMO STATION 2: VAX OPS5 Version 3.0, Powerful Rule Based Tool
* Development Environment
* Loan Advisor
* Order Processing
DEMO STATION 17: VAX Decision Expert Version 1.0, Easy-to
Use Productivity Shell
* HMO Expert Claims Advisor
* Manufacturing Shop Floor Quality Advice
* Help Desk Advisor for Computer Room Operators
* Student Registration
* Intelligent Tutorial
High Performance RISC / ULTRIX Solutions
Digital Cooperative Marketing Program
DEMO STATION 3: DEC LISP
Gensym Corporation
* G2
DEMO STATION 4: Neuron Data
* NEXPERT OBJECT (TM) / NORT (TM)
Take a Close Look At Digital's Complementary Solution Organizations
DEMO STATION 5: Cullinet Software, Inc.
* ENTERPRISE:EXPERT (TM)
DEMO STATION 6: Artificial Intelligent Technologies, Inc.
* Mercury KBE (TM)
AI Ware, Inc.
* CAD/Chem (TM)
DEMO STATION 7: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
*Quintus Prolog
DEMO STATION 8: Carnegie Group, Inc.
* Knowledge Craft (TM)
DEMO STATION 9: IntelliCorp, Inc.
* KEE (TM)
DEMO STATION 10: Epitec AB
* Epitool (TM)
DEMO STATION 11: Information Builder, Inc.
* LEVEL5 (TM)
See Digital's Industry - Specific AI Enterprise Solutions
DEMO STATION 12: Automotive
Pirelli Informatica
* Tyres Quality Assistant
DEMO STATION 13: Telecommunications
SEL Alcatel
* Alternate Routing Expert System (ARX)
DEMO STATION 14: Digital Manufacturing
* Can Build
* XDM Expert Distribution Manager
DEMO STATION 15: Consulting Services SELECT
* Products Pipeline Scheduling System
* Commercial Insurance Underwriting Expert System
* Mitsubishi Corporate Advisor (MCA)
* Expert Adhesives Advisor
DEMO STATION 16: AI Training Services
* Programming in NEXPERT OBJECT (TM)
Turbine Fan Blade QA Advisor
* Programming in VAX OPS5 (TM)
Satellite Ground-terminal Network
Diagnostic System
* Building and Prototyping Expert Systems
Credit Analysis Advisor
Attend These Digital Special Events
Monday August 21, 1989
10:00am : Digital Equipment Corporation
IJCAI'89 Vendor Presentation
Jack Rahaim, CAIM Manager
3rd Floor Room 316
Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center
Detroit, Michigan
1:30pm : Services Industry Symposium
Featuring Finance, Insurance, and Telecommunications
Moderator:
Jack Rahaim, CAIM Manager
Guest Speakers:
Rosemary Baer, Chemical Bank
Don Mick, Aetna Life and Casualty
Ted Smith, US West
Community Room 8th Floor
OMNI International Hotel
333 East Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
Tuesday August 22, 1989
8:30am : Manufacturing Industry Symposium
Featuring Process and Discrete
Moderator:
Ed Fisher, Manager of Software Engineering
Guest Speakers:
Greg Classcock, Texas Eastern
Mary Martha Black, Texas Eastern
William F. Maulsby, Kodak of Colorado
Mike Stehura, USX Corporation
Community Room 8th Floor
OMNI International Hotel
333 East Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
Wednesday August 23, 1989
9:00am : AI Training Symposium
Moderator:
Jack Rahaim, CAIM Manager
Guest Speaker:
Bob Veranes, Aetna Life and Casualty
Digital Speakers:
Jeff Clanon
Jim Nuzzo
Community Room 8th Floor
OMNI International Hotel
333 East Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
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| 127.1 | On-the-Spot Report | KORAL::TURNER | MALLET::TURNER or DTN 768-5411 | Fri Sep 01 1989 13:43 | 104 |
| I attended IJCAI; below is a quick summary of what I noticed:
DEC . LISP 3.0
Announcements: . OPS 3.0
. agreements with Excalibur, Epitex, IBI, AI Ware,
and Neuron Data
. Secure Services will include use of XSAFE
. other new services, mainly in the U.S.:
. Configuration Services
. Diagnostic Services
Most Prominent . Real-time AI products, e.g. Gensym
Exhibits: . Speech products
. Neural net products
. Excalibur (see note below)
Most Absent . APEX
Exhibits: . Applications
. ESE and KT at the IBM booth
. Any vendor running on Symbolics
Silliest . A 36-rule application which helps the user write
Exhibit: routine business letters.
Showdown: . A chess match between Deep Thought and Robert Byrne,
a grandmaster. Deep Thought won in 48 moves.
Personal . I talked with John McCarthy, the inventor of LISP.
Highlight: His latest project is a tool called "Elephant".
I'll *try* to explain it in person to whoever is
interested...
Good News The DECstation is catching on. A number of vendors
for DEC: were exhibiting on it, and a number of others are
planning conversions. Peter Brittain and I put to-
gether the following list based on what we saw. Note
that this is not an official list:
Vendor Product When on DECStation
==================================================================
Abtech Abductive Reasoning no plans
Tool
AI Techologies (??) 1 Month after DECStation Lisp
(VMS now, DECW soon)
BIM Prolog Prolog interested but not planned
(VMS & ULTRIX now)
Delphi Common Lisp end Sept
(Ultrix now)
Excalibur all products "imminent"
(neural-net
pattern-matching)
GBB Blackboard Tool Port in progress
(graphics need work)
Harlequin Common Lisp "very soon"
Ibuki Common Lisp now
Intellicorp KEE not planned
Lucid Common Lisp Beta test September 89
Shipping q3
Neural Ware SW N-Nets 1990
Neuron Data Nexpert now
Nort
Quintus Quintus Prolog "near future"
Wisdom Systems ai tool 2 months after Lucid Lisp
(= q3-q4)
ZYX Prolog Prolog now
Excalibur: This company and its products are worth mentioning: they
produce pattern-recognition software which runs exclusively
on the VAX and is getting a lot of attention. DEC announced
an agreement with them (DDS? CMP? OEM?) at IJCAI.
The two products demoed were (1) text recognition, and
(2) visual shape recognition. The text software can
take text from any form (file, CD ROM) and 'memorize' it,
e.g. build a compact index of it. The index can sit on
a different node than the text itself. When the user
supplies a string, the software finds the best match using
the index, then finds the target string in the main file.
It works very quickly and requires no special hardware
(parallel memory boards, etc.).
The shape recognition software uses a similar indexing
scheme to 'memorize' various pictures, which it then
uses to recognize items. This is being used in a lumber
mill in Japan to classify 8,000 boards a day.
The vendor claims that the products are based on single-
layer perceptrons, a technology supposedly discredited
by Minsky & Papert twenty years ago!
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| 127.2 | Epi-exposure? | HERON::ROACH | TANSTAAFL ! | Mon Sep 04 1989 10:20 | 8 |
| Mark,
Last week I was talking from someone from Epitech and they stated that
40% of the DEC leads generated were Epitool related. They received
little mention in your note. Are the Epitech people exagerating the
interest generated a little bit?
pat
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| 127.3 | Clarification | KORAL::TURNER | MALLET::TURNER or DTN 768-5411 | Mon Sep 04 1989 16:38 | 31 |
| You're right, Pat. Epitec was an important part of our marketing
effort, and it's my fault for leaving them out.
To be more complete, we announced agreements with several third
parties:
. Epitec: To sell Epitool.
. IBI: To sell "Level 5/VAX" software which gives easy
access to Focus, Rdb, RMS, and RS/1 files and
databases.
. AI Ware: To develop applications for customers who need
pattern recognition tools.
. Excalibur: A joint marketing effort aimed at the image, text,
and signal recognition marketplace.
. Neuron Data: DEC will step up support and training programs
based on NEXPERT Object.
(Descriptions above are from Digital Review and DEC/Excalibur
joint announcement.)
Further details on what these mean for Europe as we get them.
Mark
Mark
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