September 1999, Vol. 16, No. 8 Table of Contents Cover Story — Just so crazy it might work Turning the Internet into one big super computer News Briefs Recent business news from the intelligent computing industry SIGGRAPH '99 Coverage Neural Networks Neural computing to battle bad debt on the Internet HNC and EDS team up to compete for medicare contracts New identity fraud-detection service scores high in tests Intelligent Manufacturing Automation solution begins production ahead of schedule Data Mining CRISP-DM methodology brings data mining to the masses Intelligent Web Applications Partnership to offer intelligent, online financial services     Calendar Upcoming conferences focusing on intelligent computing and applications Expert Systems Contractor selects 'zero administration' software Bioinformatics Academia, private research and industry jointly battle disease Speech Recognition University and industry develop bilingual conversational system The ISR Edge Ubiquitous computing component technology Biometrics GSA announces open platform smart card program FaceIt strengthens on-line law enforcement search engine Web Site © Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com Web: www.lionheartpub.com Web Design by Premier Web Designs E-mail: lionwebmaster@preweb.com