nCUBE, a Foster City, Calif., supplier of massively parallel computing solutions, has entered into a joint research partnership with Paralogic Inc., Lehigh University, and the Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Center, all of Bethlehem, Pa., to produce a knowledge-based computer programming solution to run on the nCUBE 2 supercomputer.

Software Industry Report, March, 1992

nCUBE, a Foster City, Calif., supplier of massively parallel computing solutions, has entered into a joint research partnership with Paralogic Inc., Lehigh University, and The Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Center, all of Bethlehem, Pa., to produce a knowledge-based computer programming solution to run on the nCUBE 2 supercomputer.

The partnership will produce a version of Paralogic's n-parallel PROLOG, an advanced logic-based programming language, for the nCUBE 2 system. Knowledge-based computing systems, also known as expert systems, are designed to model human thinking by using a database of information, experiences and other "knowledge" to draw conclusions about specific problems. nCUBE CEO Michael Meirer says the thinking computer, when it finally...

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