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From: rose@ils.nwu.edu (Scott Rose)
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Subject: Re: What Has Traditional AI Accomplished?
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Date: 11 Oct 90 18:15:40 GMT
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In article <3649@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu
(Marvin Minsky) writes:
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>Someone at Arthur Anderson Inc told me that half of their
>multi-billion dollar income was coming from the expert systems
>supplied by them, about a year or so ago.  The ES part of the company
>had become as large as the rest of it, and this led to the company's
>splitting into two parts.

These facts are not quite right.  Actually, it was the the systems
consulting  division of
Arthur Andersen which accounted for approximately half of the company's total
income.    Expert systems work probably contributed less than 5% to the
bottom line.  It is, however, one of the fastest growing areas of the
consulting practice.  

In article <69607@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>,  loren@tristan.llnl.gov (Loren
Petrich) writes 
>
>	Pretty remarkable. I have not heard much of it. What are the
>capabilities of Arthur Anderson's systems? Do they have anything to
>help out in working out inference rules?

Most of the work is built on expert systems workbenches such as those
built by Aion and Inference.

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