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1996: The year in review 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. News Briefs A snapshot of newsworthy events in the intelligent systems arena. Net-ID wins bioinformatics R&D grant 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. BT takes a close look at iris recognition 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. ISR 1996 Article Index A listing of all the feature articles and department items that appeared in ISR during 1996, including the Electronic Commerce Update supplements. General Magic reveals next-gen software 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. |
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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. Lockheed Martin leads virtual prototyping project for ARPA 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 provides voice interface to voice mail Atlas Telecom is incorporating speech recognition into its PCS Messenger product, offering voice mail services throughout Europe and Asia. |
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