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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: REAL LISP applications
Message-ID: <2586@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 May 90 16:43:47 GMT
References: <1990May24.195449.15510@king.mcs.drexel.edu> <1990May25.221509.21274@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <22308@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <GUMBY.90May26153646@Cygnus.COM> <36850@think.Think.COM>
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In article <36850@think.Think.COM> barmar@nugodot.think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
 >One I can think of offhand is that American Express is using an expert
 >system running on Symbolics Lisp Machines to automate purchase
 >authorization (I think it decides whether the current purchase is obviously
 >consistent with your history, and if not it passes the decision on to a
 >human).

It also improves the way information is presented to the human
authorizer in a number of ways, including such details as displaying
numbers with leading zeros supressed (which the older interface
apparently didn't do).