Applied AI News

A team that includes AI Ware (Cleveland, Ohio), a vendor of intelligent systems for design and manufacturing applications, has been awarded a $3.8 million grant by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop an aluminum diecasting process monitoring and optimization system. The team will develop a neural network-based system with self-improving capabilities to detect as well as predict process and quality problems, and that can suggest corrective actions before quality degrades below acceptable limits. Caterpillar (Peoria, Ill.), a manufacturer of construction, earth-moving equipment and engines, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, has developed a virtual reality environment for testing new machine designs. These tests assess the vehicle's design and determine visibility from the cab. Verity (Mountain View, Calif.), a supplier of information retrieval tools based on intelligent agent technology, has teamed up with Netscape Communications Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.), a provider of open software for the Internet and other global networks, to bring Verity's Topic agent technology to the Internet.