Applied AI News

Net-ID (San Francisco, Calif.) has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health to develop software for the rapid analysis and classification of the large number of DNA and protein sequences produced by the Human Genome Project and other sequencing projects. The AIbased software will be used to mine public and private data bases of genetic information. Aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has been named project leader of the next-generation Simulation-Based Design Project by the Advanced Research Projects Agency Tactical Technology Office. The goal of the project is to create virtual prototypes of complex ships and military systems in a real-time, interactive environment. Physical Optics (Torrance, Calif.) has developed ssmart, a hybrid neural network program that is being used to detect and identify tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections.