Artificial Intelligence


Software That Thinks

Here's a look at how companies can use artificial intelligence to track customers and predict market trends.  Read story

Decisions, Decisions

Profile of a technology start-up's search for the right market niche.  Read story

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines

A close up look at a doomed-yet-brilliant start-up computer company that never quite grasped the basics of business.  Read story

Creating Growth Paths

Turnaround Update Company: Lau Technologies, Littleton, Mass. Founded: 1990 ...  Read story

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Computer-aided design (CAD) involves creating computer models defined by geometrical parameters. These models typically appear on a computer monitor as a ...  Read story

Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain

Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management.  Read story

So What Is A Spatial Light Modulator, Anyway?

What does a spatial light modulator do, and what will it be able to do in the future? Quite a lot, according to the world-renowned Battelle Memorial Insti...  Read story

"The Singularity" is Here

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He's founded nine companies, which work on everything from speech recognition to artificial intelligence. In Read story

Venture Directories on Diskette

Various venture capital resource guides available on diskette.  Read story

Insect Inside

Inspired by the cockroach, Orbital Research Inc. has developed an advanced control system that aims to prevent airplane and car crashes.  Read story

The Fifth Generation, By Edward A. Feigenbaum And Pamela Mccorduck. Addison-wesley, Reading, Ma 01867, 275 Pp., $15.55.

Sort of an "Eggplant that Ate Chicago" science-fiction adventure, except that the science part is real: a takeover of the computer industry by the Japanes...  Read story

Fast Trading with Computers

Company computerizes barter technology to allow tens of thousands of small companies to barter goods and services.  Read story

Get a Job

A quick comment on the impact of technology on the workplace from the creator of the cartoon Dilbert.  Read story

Not Just For The Big Guys Anymore

Sophisticated, affordable computer systems are helping smart companies get even smarter.  Read story

The Shape of Things to Come

Artificial Intelligence's effect on the workplace and the economy.  Read story

He's Teaching Computers To Understand English

"The computers companies are using today are still obtuse and obstinate," says Earl Sacredoti. "It's the old 'I am not programmed to do that.' Actually c...  Read story

Death to Cool

For years, iRobot designed stuff cool enough for the Sci-Fi Channel, but its new product sells on the Home Shopping Network. Here's how a boutique high-tech ...  Read story

A Motherboard's Love

In the future, PCs, like presidents, may be able to feel your pain. Or at least they'll recognize it, thanks to new software that lets computers observe a...  Read story

Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain, Continued

Leigh Buchanan's extended Q&A with leading management consultant, Charles Jacobs, about his new book "Management Rewired," which looks at how brain structure...  Read story

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