Intelligent Systems Report € January € 1997 € Volume 14 € No. 1
ISR takes a look back at 1996 and highlights some of the major events of the previous year, including the emergence of VRML 2.0, electronic commerce, neural networks in medicine, AI companies on Wall Street, and speech recognition standards.
A snapshot of newsworthy events in the intelligent systems arena.
Net-ID is developing software to analyze and classify DNA and protein sequences produced by the Human Genome Project. The work is being funded by the National Institutes of Health.
British Telecom has teamed up with IriScan to commercialize the iris recognition biometric process, a security process some believe is more effective than fingerprints or voice patterns.
A listing of all the feature articles and department items that appeared in ISR during 1996, including the Electronic Commerce Update supplements.
One of the first companies to commercialize intelligent agents, General Magic has developed the latest version of its Magic Cap operating system, code-named Rosemary. This article provides a sneak-peak into Rosemary's capabilities.
A round-up of recently released applications utilizing intelligent technologies.
Reviews of current books dealing with intelligent systems.
A compilation of new product release information, ranging from neural networks and expert systems, to speech recognition and virtual reality.
A list of upcoming intelligent systems-related events.
ARPA has picked Lockheed Martin to create virtual prototypes of complex ships and military systems as part of the Simulation-Based Design (SBD) project. VR tool vendor Division has been named to the project as well.
Atlas Telecom is incorporating speech recognition into its PCS Messenger product, offering voice mail services throughout Europe and Asia.
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