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Foil 26 Anecdotes from Information Industry

From HPCC Applications in Industry IDA Presentation -- October 31,1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Dowquest already uses two CM-2's to extract information from an online database of financial articles.
  • Generalized in WAIS system by Thinking Machines
A small Rochester company making CD-ROM's would like to complete task more quickly as need to run several times to get error free CD-ROM.
Low end (PC) multimedia systems will revolutionize information presentation (DVI specialized hardware for realtime CDROM animation)
  • But will need parallel supercomputer for intelligent dynamic searches
SIAC uses 3090's after hours to find unusual correlations which could signify fraudulent trading
Otis has ~1 million elevators and is considering a central database to accumulate operating history. One could then analyze with neural networks or an expert system to find "signatures" that allow one to schedule preventive maintenance and avoid "callbacks" - customer induced repair calls
  • Japanese elevators have a very good reputation for reliability (>10 times better than United States ?)



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