Table of Contents

June 1997
Volume 14
No. 6

 


AI Industry Shake-Out Shifts into High Gear
Picking up where we left off last month, several more major acquisitions have shifted the balance of power in the intelligent systems industry, including the sale of Kurzweil Applied Intelligence to its speech recognition rival, Lernout & Hauspie. A half-dozen other acquisitions are examined in detail as well.

Concentra Launches Project KBO
Project KBO (for Knowledge-Based Organization) has been established to create an environment for harnessing, storing and deploying human knowledge throughout every aspect of an organization's business.

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

Iris Recognition Could Make it a Real Horse Race
IriScan and Oki Electric Industries are teaming up to develop a biometric system that identifies thoroughbred horses via iris recognition. Racing officials hope such a system can thwart illegal switching of horses, and help confirm identities of stolen animals.

IVR System Simplifies Bean-Counting for PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft has installed an interactive accounts payable inquiry system that lets its vendors directly access payment information via phone or the Internet. The system uses interactive voice response (IVR) technology.

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

Book Shelf
Reviews of current books dealing with intelligent systems.

Glaxo Wellcome Eases its Pains with Intelligent Scheduler
Glaxo Wellcome has deployed an intelligent tracking and scheduling system to manage its automated storage and retrieval system.

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.

Web Advertisers Seek a Neural Edge
InfoSeek has launched Ultramatch, a neural network-based Web advertising system that targets likely prospects based on Web use.

Volkswagen Works the Bugs Out of its Dealer Training
A virtual reality-based technical test is helping Volkswagen train engineers at its dealerships.

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