Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!vsi1!ubvax!pyramid!leadsv!esl!sam From: sam@esl.com (Samuel S. Hahn) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Survey for m-media workers Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 21:46:33 GMT References: <5140@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: news@esl.ESL.COM Organization: ESL, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 70 Nntp-Posting-Host: avalon In-reply-to: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP's message of 13 Mar 91 20:06:55 GMT Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 13:21:35 PST From: Mailer-Daemon@esl (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown To: [Rick -- Couldn't reach "mindlink", so I posted this on the net... -- Sam] Hello. Here's something along the lines of what you were asking for. I'd be very interested in your summary. -- Sam Hahn (sam@esl.com) 1) (C) really big 2) (b) <20 3) (b) The result of planned expansion into m-m 4) (c) both of the above 5) Advanced Technology 6) (a) hired 7) (b) ignore what we are doing. 8) (a) are ready 9) Decision aids / analytical tools for large data volumes (many sources and media), both automated and interactive 10) Name: Samuel Hahn Title: Department Mgr, Program Mgr Years in M-m: 6+ Previous work: Databases / Artificial Intelligence Company: ESL (TRW) ===================================================================== What is ESL? ESL is a company of approximately 2000 in Sunnyvale, CA. (The name used to mean Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory.) In ESL's 26 years of business, we have established ourselves as excellent engineers of high-performance, high-technology, special-purpose, communications systems, signal processing systems, data reduction systems, and intelligence handling systems. We process all signals in the spectrum, and make sense of most of it. We work primarily for the US Government. Who am I? Who are we? I am Sam Hahn, a department manager and program manager in one of the ESL ATSD laboratories, the Advanced Intelligence Applications Technology (AIAT) laboratory. This laboratory consists of approximately two dozen staff (growing monthly) whose history since 1982 has been development and delivery of successful expert-system-based, advanced user-interface, distributed, multi-media, multi-source, and database oriented intelligence analysis workstations. We have grown from a handful of people in 1982 to teams ranging in size from two to two dozen. Our mix of expertise includes, and is certainly not limited to: Lisp, C, (Transact-)SQL, NeWS, X, OpenWindows, Unix, Mach, NextStep, PostScript, C++, Sun, NeXT, Symbolics, Xerox, Pixar, Vitec, Parallax Graphics, CLOS, PCL, Objective-C, KEE, ART, Mercury, natural language processing, free-text database, multi-media databases, geographic information systems, image processing, distributed computing, ... (and others which I will be embarrassed later I didn't cite). In specific, there are two subsystems to my current project which are implemented in Lisp. One is a document analysis tool, the other a smart database-cognizant "stuffer" tool. Other components to the total system are implemented in C and Objective-C,