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From: demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David E Demers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Neural-net marketplace
Keywords: neural net
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Date: 14 May 89 20:51:52 GMT
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In article <159@spectra.COM> eghbalni@spectra.COM (Hamid Eghbalnia) writes:
>	This is a purely a curiosity question.  How are the "NN-type"
>	companies doing?  I suppose the underlying question is:  Has
>	anybody been able to use the technology to develop applications
>	that has excited government or industry beyond just research?

I just read that SAIC just received a $100 million contract to provide
airports with bomb-sensing luggage-scanning devices 
based on neural nets.  I believe
the order was from the FAA.  I don't have the article handy, it might
have been in EETimes - definitely a trade publication - within the
past week or so.  SAIC, of course, is not primarily a NN company, but
$100MM is a big chunk of business no matter who you are.

Dave