Review - Spang Robinson Report, March 1987
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The main article discusses AI and Database Technology with the results
of an interview with James Neiser of Ashton. Ashton Tate is going to
be concentrating non-AI decison-rules with natural language and expert systems
to be considered later. The newsletter also includes a two page table
listing various company's plans and products in the database-AI integration
area.
Other items of note in this article include:
Symantec has sold 40,000 copies of their system which is a data base
system with natural language.
Cullinet has agreed to acquire the company selling a COBOL based expert
system shell
Man-Machine systems is marketing G-Base for the LMI Lambda and TI explorers
which allows the interfacing of LISP and PROLOG to the database
IBM has created a natural language and Prolog front end to SQL.
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New Applications of Expert Systems:
Cannon - copier maintenance system
Ishikawajima Heavy Industry- engine failure analysis system
Yasukawa Electric Manufacturing System - large crane analysis system
Iwai Mechanical Industry - plant failure analysis sytem
Technical Collaborates - expert system for architects in the area of disaster/
safety regulations (in planning)
Takenaka Engineering - construction, surveying, (in development)
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Shorts
Fuji Xerox will be distributing PARC Smalltalk in Japan and ASR
will be marketing ExSys in Japan.
Medical Information Systems has a network allowing people to use medical
expert systems that is accesible via Fujitsu's VAN service.
Level Five Insight 2+ can access DBase II files.
The Senior marketer at Applied Expert Systems, Richard Karash, has left.
Larry Geisel is leaving the Carnegie Group CEO position possibly to start
another company.
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The newsletter also contains a review of the recent IEEE conference on AI applic
ations.
Also reviews of the CRI Directory of Expert Systems and SEAI's Expert Systems 19
86:
An Assessment of Technology and Applications.