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"Nearly 10 years ago, the Department of Commerce issued a technology assessment of the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) market.... The report estimated the 1993 global AI market - including technologies such as expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, robotics, speech recognition, search, etc. - at about $900 million.... What a difference a decade makes…. In April, Business Communication Company (BCC) will release a thorough new study of the worldwide artificial intelligence market, which it predicts will reach more than $21 billion by 2007 with an average annual growth rate from 2002 to 2007 of 12.2%. In 2002 alone, BCC calculates the worldwide market was $11.9 billion…." Fledgling Robot Industry Aims to Fly High.