It's a time for reflection on what we've done in the first. A look back at our inaugural issue shows that ten years ago we concentrated on the then-novel concept of Artificial Intelligence on Pcs. It pervades almost every type of application, making them intelligent and increasing their usefulness. Spreadsheets and statistical packages use neural networks to model all kinds of phenomena. Helpdesk systems use case-based reasoning to provide customer service.
Web pages incorporate expert systems.
Multimedia language-teaching packages recognize speech. MS Office 97 features natural language input to intelligent agents that help you as you work. Thus, AI has changed the way applications operate on Pcs. Mainframe-based AI depended on textual input and often arcane languages. The advent of supercharged, heavily muscled PCs allows us to concentrate on applications rather than on clever techniques which produce them.