Table of Contents

May 1997
Volume 14
No. 5

 


Merger Mania Engulfs Intelligent Systems Industry
After a period of relative calm, recent events indicate that a shake-out is underway again. Exsys and Level/5 Research — two long-time expert system vendors — have been acquired, as have Dimension X, a Java-based VRML provider. The driving force behind these acquisitions, ultimately, is the Internet.

News Briefs
A snapshot of newsworthy events in the intelligent systems arena.

Southwestern Bell's Virtual Town Improves Job Training
Telecommunications provider Southwestern Bell has developed one of the largest virtual reality environments ever created. The VR center is designed to give technicians practical training in tracking down circuit faults.

NASA Working on a Million-Times-Faster Internet
NASA's Ames Research Center has embarked on the Next Generation Initiative to increase the speed and capacity of the Internet. Current plans project that by the year 2002, information will flow a million times faster than today's standard modems.

Perfetti Forecasts Sales With Neural Networks
Perfetti, an Italian chewing gum company, is using a neural network solution for its financial, marketing and sales planning needs.

Intelligent Applications
A round-up of recently released applications utilizing intelligent technologies.

Book Shelf
Reviews of current books dealing with intelligent systems.

Products
A compilation of new product release information, ranging from neural networks and expert systems, to speech recognition and virtual reality.

Calendar
A list of upcoming intelligent systems-related events.

Commentary: Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov
While the popular press goes stark raving nuts speculating about a Brave New World now that a computer has defeated the reigning world chess champion, editor David Blanchard weighs in with his own take, asking, "So what?"

Intelligent System Puts Met-Mex "In the Zinc"
Met-Mex, a producer of zinc and other metals, has implemented an intelligent control system to improve its zinc yield. The system provides operator decision support and on-line control of the zinc refining process.

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