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Hallo Leute,
hier habe ich einen Artikel gefunden, der sich generell mit diesem Thema (KI) befasst.
Was mich besonders interessiert hat, war ueber die Konkurenz von ALIF zu lesen. Leider stand nicht soviel drin, vor allem ein Vergleich, wer auf diesem Gebiet bereits wie weit ist, ausser, dass Microsoft ein bischen hinterher hinkt und was ueber ALIF eh schon bekannt ist.
Ich frage mich eh ob sich jemand gegen deren Macht (MS) mittel- bis langfristig durchsetzen koennte. Weiss jemand vielleicht mehr. Und was machen andere Giganten wie IBM???
SK
Erwaehnte Forscher in diesem Artikel:
Artificial Life
Extempo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microsoft
Virtual Personalities
Forbes, Sept 11, 2000 p22
Invasion Of The Virbots. Dolly Setton.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2000 Forbes, Inc.
DRESSED IN A BLUE SUIT, HAIR TIED BACK,REA smiles at the young man as he approaches the desk in a Cambridge, Mass. office. But at the same time she is mentally taking his measure.
Rea: Hello. Can I help you?
John: I`m looking to buy a place near MIT.
Rea: I have a place to show you.(Up comes a picture of a townhouse behind her on a screen. ) It`s in Somerville.
John: Tell me about it.
Rea: It`s big ... (She makes an expansive gesture with her arms but noticing that John seems to want to cut in, she stops.)
John: Is there a garden?
Rea: Yes, there`s a nice garden...
John is a real guy but Rea (short for real estate agent) is a programmer`s creation, computer code brought to life in three-dimensional animated form. In computer talk she is an agent, a virbot, a bot, a graphical interface. This simulated two-way conversation takes place in the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rea is the creation of Professor Justine Cassell, a cognitive psychologist and linguistics expert. Rea is a virtual mannequin that seems semi-human.
Two digital video cameras trained on her client allow Rea to track John`s hand and head positions while he talks into a microphone. John unconsciously becomes "entrained" to her--as he would with a real salesperson. She may look like what she is--an artificial person, but her actions and gestures are so convincingly human that John soon forgets she`s only virtual. Her speech is syntactically correct, her gestures human. She is reading John and reacting to his words and gestures.
As they have been for centuries (see timeline, p. 24), scientists are obsessed with the idea of creating artificial intelligence. With computers and the Internet they are finally getting close to their goal.
The practical reason for all the activity now is to create "agents" that can serve as a bridge between real humans and the Internet. Some agents will work on voice recognition: Driving along alone in your car you will tell it: "I`m in a nostalgic mood. Play me some Beatles." Familiar with your tastes, the agent will do the rest and shortly the appropriate sounds will blare from your car stereo.
Other agents in the form of graphical interfaces that elicit a reaction from you, will read your face and gestures as well as your voice and your typed commands. Computer scientists and psychologists working together at places like MIT and Stanford, are attempting to catalog the physiological and psychological ways people interact so as to program them into a virtual person. Rea is an early product.
The human-computer interface has been stuck on a keyboard, mouse and screen for some 15 years. "Today your Net experience is terribly limited," says Richard Sherlund, software analyst at Goldman Sachs. "You can`t even cut and paste in HTML. There`s no flexibility in data input: no handwriting recognition, no voice recognition."
As part of its Internet initiative, which consumes half its $4.4 billion R&D budget, Bill Gates`s company is spending heavily to make it easier and pleasanter--more human--for people to interact with computers and the Internet. The easier and pleasanter it gets, the bigger the market for the stuff Microsoft makes.
Using statistical probability and decision-theory techniques that draw inferences based on user behavior, these agents--Rea is the embodiment of one-- will know what kind of music you like, whether you prefer to travel on scenic back roads or just want to get where you are going the fast way. Eugene Ball, Microsoft senior scientist says these agents will be able to screen your e-mail and point to things of interest on the Web.
While it will be at least three years before Microsoft uses agents in its operating system, other virtual robots, or virbots, have already begun to take posts on Web sites in sales and customer service. For example, Boston-based Artificial Life`s animated sales representative, "Kim," sells cellular telephones online for German telecom MobilCom. Kim wears a red suit and has dark brown shoulder-length hair. Unlike Rea she can`t "read" the sales prospect who approaches her on the Internet. But she`s more than just a pretty face: Her pleasant voice, her winks, her smile, her preprogrammed gestures and humanoid appearance make her answers to your questions more engaging than mere typed answers would be. "It`s a significant advantage that through Kim we can react directly to customers." says MobilCom executive Thorsten Meier. "Particularly when we`re selling products that require a lot of explanation."
"Demand is really taking off right now," says Barbara Hayes-Roth, chief executive of Redwood City-based Extempo, which develops animated expert agents and natural language engines. Its software allows computers to engage in conversation with loosely scripted responses. Procter & Gamble hired Extempo to create a computer agent for its Mr. Clean character at www.mrclean.com. Ask Mr. Clean a simple question like "What kind of products come from P&G?" or "Why do you wear an earring?" and the bald muscular figure will smile broadly and say "I wear an earring because it`s fashionable." Crude as all this is, marketers find that these humanoids do make people more comfortable with computers--much as the use of cartoon characters does in TV advertising.
Virtual Personalities, a Los Angeles-based company founded by Michael Mauldin, creates virtual characters for customer service. Maudlin calls them "virbots."
"Virbots are never rude, never take lunch breaks, never screw up, never ask for a raise," says Robert Rappaport, Virtual Personalities` chief executive. "They provide a comfortable bridge between people and technology."
Boston`s Artificial Life has created virbot financial advisor, Ashton, who always wears a gray suit, blue shirt and checked tie. You can get much of this same information from a good financial portal but Ashton makes the experience more personal.
What makes the virbots more human is this: Their expressions and gestures are coordinated with a database that assigns qualities to thousands of words. The virbot would thus smile warmly when a visitor says "hello," and place his hands on his hips and grimace when called "stupid." Says Robert Pantano, chief financial officer of Artificial Life: "Small talk capability gets people comfortable. People start talking about themselves, volunteering a lot of important stuff that`s beneficial to companies--name, age, occupation. No offense to people mining click data or cookie data, like DoubleClick, but we`re taking online marketing to the next level. People find cookies intrusive and are more apt to turn them off. Not so for our agents."
Virbots are expected to play a big role in the classroom as education moves to the Web. They enhance the interactive nature of the medium. They can help keep students engaged, their minds from wandering. "Studies show that children learn better when they`re playing," says Extempo CEO Hayes-Roth, who is also a Stanford professor of computer science. Extempo has developed an agent called a Web Learning Guide. Hayes-Roth describes it: "Like a good mom, the Web Learning Guide is sensitive to different learning styles. It creates a learner profile from online choices, performance and answers to explicit questions, and then adapts its approach to that style."
Hayes-Roth points out that these techniques are not merely useful with kids. She sees them playing a big role in corporate training--adult minds wander, too. "Not only would one-on-one guides be available to anyone, but it`s also possible for each Web educator to create one. It`s a kind of self-publishing." A kind of animated second persona for every teacher.
Artificial Life has a virbot named Einstein who teaches, of course, physics. If you`ve avoided answering a question for a long time, professor Einstein taps on the blackboard to get your attention. Do poorly on one of his quizzes and he will adjust the level of his next lecture.
Justine Cassell, at MIT`s Media Lab, creator of Rea, the real estate woman, has spent 15 years observing videotaped conversations and hand motions. This led her to develop a formal model of the relationship between speech and gestures. She`s interested in discovering the system of rules that underlies human gesture. Were you taught to keep your hands still while you were talking? Whoever taught you that probably did you a disservice.
Cassell has found many gestures of hand, shoulder or face frequently help convey information. While Rea gazes intently into a visitor`s eyes, five processors record the visitor`s gestures and inflections. Does the client say, "Oh, this bathroom is beautiful. I love [blue] tiles," with a gesture on "blue"? Rea catches that movement and replies, "Yes, blue is a lovely choice for a bathroom."
But, if the client says, "Oh this bathroom is beautiful. I love blue [tile]" then Rea replies, "Yes, tile is so easy to take care of." Identical sentences but unless the computer can read the gesture it misses half the cues.
Rea is still years away from your desktop. There`s not enough bandwidth yet to accommodate all of the video and audio data she needs. For now the agents that roam the Web can`t pick up on the relation between language, thought and gestures. When the bandwidth is here, Rea and Einstein and Ashton will be ready. When they go into their full acts, the computer and the Internet will be closer to realizing their full potential.
Of course there will be a downside. Artificial Life`s Web guide Luci is a sultry redhead who occasionally winks at visitors and keeps a log of every conversation she has. We asked Luci what she thought of characters playing manipulative roles and violating users` privacy.
Luci smiled. Then she replied: "I`m not going to lie to you. But I may not be as direct as you`d like."
hier habe ich einen Artikel gefunden, der sich generell mit diesem Thema (KI) befasst.
Was mich besonders interessiert hat, war ueber die Konkurenz von ALIF zu lesen. Leider stand nicht soviel drin, vor allem ein Vergleich, wer auf diesem Gebiet bereits wie weit ist, ausser, dass Microsoft ein bischen hinterher hinkt und was ueber ALIF eh schon bekannt ist.
Ich frage mich eh ob sich jemand gegen deren Macht (MS) mittel- bis langfristig durchsetzen koennte. Weiss jemand vielleicht mehr. Und was machen andere Giganten wie IBM???
SK
Erwaehnte Forscher in diesem Artikel:
Artificial Life
Extempo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microsoft
Virtual Personalities
Forbes, Sept 11, 2000 p22
Invasion Of The Virbots. Dolly Setton.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2000 Forbes, Inc.
DRESSED IN A BLUE SUIT, HAIR TIED BACK,REA smiles at the young man as he approaches the desk in a Cambridge, Mass. office. But at the same time she is mentally taking his measure.
Rea: Hello. Can I help you?
John: I`m looking to buy a place near MIT.
Rea: I have a place to show you.(Up comes a picture of a townhouse behind her on a screen. ) It`s in Somerville.
John: Tell me about it.
Rea: It`s big ... (She makes an expansive gesture with her arms but noticing that John seems to want to cut in, she stops.)
John: Is there a garden?
Rea: Yes, there`s a nice garden...
John is a real guy but Rea (short for real estate agent) is a programmer`s creation, computer code brought to life in three-dimensional animated form. In computer talk she is an agent, a virbot, a bot, a graphical interface. This simulated two-way conversation takes place in the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rea is the creation of Professor Justine Cassell, a cognitive psychologist and linguistics expert. Rea is a virtual mannequin that seems semi-human.
Two digital video cameras trained on her client allow Rea to track John`s hand and head positions while he talks into a microphone. John unconsciously becomes "entrained" to her--as he would with a real salesperson. She may look like what she is--an artificial person, but her actions and gestures are so convincingly human that John soon forgets she`s only virtual. Her speech is syntactically correct, her gestures human. She is reading John and reacting to his words and gestures.
As they have been for centuries (see timeline, p. 24), scientists are obsessed with the idea of creating artificial intelligence. With computers and the Internet they are finally getting close to their goal.
The practical reason for all the activity now is to create "agents" that can serve as a bridge between real humans and the Internet. Some agents will work on voice recognition: Driving along alone in your car you will tell it: "I`m in a nostalgic mood. Play me some Beatles." Familiar with your tastes, the agent will do the rest and shortly the appropriate sounds will blare from your car stereo.
Other agents in the form of graphical interfaces that elicit a reaction from you, will read your face and gestures as well as your voice and your typed commands. Computer scientists and psychologists working together at places like MIT and Stanford, are attempting to catalog the physiological and psychological ways people interact so as to program them into a virtual person. Rea is an early product.
The human-computer interface has been stuck on a keyboard, mouse and screen for some 15 years. "Today your Net experience is terribly limited," says Richard Sherlund, software analyst at Goldman Sachs. "You can`t even cut and paste in HTML. There`s no flexibility in data input: no handwriting recognition, no voice recognition."
As part of its Internet initiative, which consumes half its $4.4 billion R&D budget, Bill Gates`s company is spending heavily to make it easier and pleasanter--more human--for people to interact with computers and the Internet. The easier and pleasanter it gets, the bigger the market for the stuff Microsoft makes.
Using statistical probability and decision-theory techniques that draw inferences based on user behavior, these agents--Rea is the embodiment of one-- will know what kind of music you like, whether you prefer to travel on scenic back roads or just want to get where you are going the fast way. Eugene Ball, Microsoft senior scientist says these agents will be able to screen your e-mail and point to things of interest on the Web.
While it will be at least three years before Microsoft uses agents in its operating system, other virtual robots, or virbots, have already begun to take posts on Web sites in sales and customer service. For example, Boston-based Artificial Life`s animated sales representative, "Kim," sells cellular telephones online for German telecom MobilCom. Kim wears a red suit and has dark brown shoulder-length hair. Unlike Rea she can`t "read" the sales prospect who approaches her on the Internet. But she`s more than just a pretty face: Her pleasant voice, her winks, her smile, her preprogrammed gestures and humanoid appearance make her answers to your questions more engaging than mere typed answers would be. "It`s a significant advantage that through Kim we can react directly to customers." says MobilCom executive Thorsten Meier. "Particularly when we`re selling products that require a lot of explanation."
"Demand is really taking off right now," says Barbara Hayes-Roth, chief executive of Redwood City-based Extempo, which develops animated expert agents and natural language engines. Its software allows computers to engage in conversation with loosely scripted responses. Procter & Gamble hired Extempo to create a computer agent for its Mr. Clean character at www.mrclean.com. Ask Mr. Clean a simple question like "What kind of products come from P&G?" or "Why do you wear an earring?" and the bald muscular figure will smile broadly and say "I wear an earring because it`s fashionable." Crude as all this is, marketers find that these humanoids do make people more comfortable with computers--much as the use of cartoon characters does in TV advertising.
Virtual Personalities, a Los Angeles-based company founded by Michael Mauldin, creates virtual characters for customer service. Maudlin calls them "virbots."
"Virbots are never rude, never take lunch breaks, never screw up, never ask for a raise," says Robert Rappaport, Virtual Personalities` chief executive. "They provide a comfortable bridge between people and technology."
Boston`s Artificial Life has created virbot financial advisor, Ashton, who always wears a gray suit, blue shirt and checked tie. You can get much of this same information from a good financial portal but Ashton makes the experience more personal.
What makes the virbots more human is this: Their expressions and gestures are coordinated with a database that assigns qualities to thousands of words. The virbot would thus smile warmly when a visitor says "hello," and place his hands on his hips and grimace when called "stupid." Says Robert Pantano, chief financial officer of Artificial Life: "Small talk capability gets people comfortable. People start talking about themselves, volunteering a lot of important stuff that`s beneficial to companies--name, age, occupation. No offense to people mining click data or cookie data, like DoubleClick, but we`re taking online marketing to the next level. People find cookies intrusive and are more apt to turn them off. Not so for our agents."
Virbots are expected to play a big role in the classroom as education moves to the Web. They enhance the interactive nature of the medium. They can help keep students engaged, their minds from wandering. "Studies show that children learn better when they`re playing," says Extempo CEO Hayes-Roth, who is also a Stanford professor of computer science. Extempo has developed an agent called a Web Learning Guide. Hayes-Roth describes it: "Like a good mom, the Web Learning Guide is sensitive to different learning styles. It creates a learner profile from online choices, performance and answers to explicit questions, and then adapts its approach to that style."
Hayes-Roth points out that these techniques are not merely useful with kids. She sees them playing a big role in corporate training--adult minds wander, too. "Not only would one-on-one guides be available to anyone, but it`s also possible for each Web educator to create one. It`s a kind of self-publishing." A kind of animated second persona for every teacher.
Artificial Life has a virbot named Einstein who teaches, of course, physics. If you`ve avoided answering a question for a long time, professor Einstein taps on the blackboard to get your attention. Do poorly on one of his quizzes and he will adjust the level of his next lecture.
Justine Cassell, at MIT`s Media Lab, creator of Rea, the real estate woman, has spent 15 years observing videotaped conversations and hand motions. This led her to develop a formal model of the relationship between speech and gestures. She`s interested in discovering the system of rules that underlies human gesture. Were you taught to keep your hands still while you were talking? Whoever taught you that probably did you a disservice.
Cassell has found many gestures of hand, shoulder or face frequently help convey information. While Rea gazes intently into a visitor`s eyes, five processors record the visitor`s gestures and inflections. Does the client say, "Oh, this bathroom is beautiful. I love [blue] tiles," with a gesture on "blue"? Rea catches that movement and replies, "Yes, blue is a lovely choice for a bathroom."
But, if the client says, "Oh this bathroom is beautiful. I love blue [tile]" then Rea replies, "Yes, tile is so easy to take care of." Identical sentences but unless the computer can read the gesture it misses half the cues.
Rea is still years away from your desktop. There`s not enough bandwidth yet to accommodate all of the video and audio data she needs. For now the agents that roam the Web can`t pick up on the relation between language, thought and gestures. When the bandwidth is here, Rea and Einstein and Ashton will be ready. When they go into their full acts, the computer and the Internet will be closer to realizing their full potential.
Of course there will be a downside. Artificial Life`s Web guide Luci is a sultry redhead who occasionally winks at visitors and keeps a log of every conversation she has. We asked Luci what she thought of characters playing manipulative roles and violating users` privacy.
Luci smiled. Then she replied: "I`m not going to lie to you. But I may not be as direct as you`d like."
Keine Experten auf diesem Gebiet an Bort???
SK
SK
Kein Interesse mehr an ALIF oder was geht ab???
SK
SK
bDen Artikel gabs schon seit längerem auf der Alif homepage zu lesen. insofern nichts neues und ist auch schon diskutiert worden. Alles andere noch im Lot, Alif nicht illiquide und es geht voran und wir warten einfach mal ein paar Meldungen ab. CU
Auch wenn Du es vielleicht nicht hören magst, aber ich
Alife ist tot.
Die finden einfach keine Abnehmer für ihre "tollen" Produkte.
Ansonsten die Story hört sich echt gut an, nur ich kann es nicht
überprüfen. Die "Experten" haben entschieden, die Produkte
werden nicht gekauft und die Aktie fällt.
Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, das Alife das Ei des Kolumbus
hat und es keiner merkt.
Viel wahrscheinlicher: alles ist nur aufgebauscht.
Trotzdem Viel Glück mit Alife
Hatte die auch mal im Depot und war voll überzeugt.
Doch die Realität hat mich eingeholt.
Im Moment kann man mit Träumereien an der Börse nichts verdienen, und wenn die Zeit wieder kommt ist Alife meiner
Meinung nach nicht mehr da.
Out of cash.
Gruß
bb
Alife ist tot.
Die finden einfach keine Abnehmer für ihre "tollen" Produkte.
Ansonsten die Story hört sich echt gut an, nur ich kann es nicht
überprüfen. Die "Experten" haben entschieden, die Produkte
werden nicht gekauft und die Aktie fällt.
Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, das Alife das Ei des Kolumbus
hat und es keiner merkt.
Viel wahrscheinlicher: alles ist nur aufgebauscht.
Trotzdem Viel Glück mit Alife
Hatte die auch mal im Depot und war voll überzeugt.
Doch die Realität hat mich eingeholt.
Im Moment kann man mit Träumereien an der Börse nichts verdienen, und wenn die Zeit wieder kommt ist Alife meiner
Meinung nach nicht mehr da.
Out of cash.
Gruß
bb
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Tja, genau deshalb...die Realität hat die Börse wieder....hat alif ja die Strategie gewechselt und versucht nun über zwar langsamere Expansion schnellstmöglich den BE zu schaffe. Aber das hatten wir ja alles schonmal...Alif hat keine Kunden...mmmhhh...wäre mir neu...aber egal...jeder hat halt seine Meinung und in einem oder einen halben Jahr wissen wir alle vielmehr....cu
Ach ja, interessant an dem Artikel ist auch noch, dass Mobilcom zitiert wird..scheinen doch zufrieden zu sein, oder MIII???
Artificial Life Announces Product Strategy 2001
Patent filed for upcoming version of core technology and ALife-SmartEngine(TM)
BOSTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston based Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALIF), a leading provider of SmartBot(TM) Internet technology announced today its product strategy for 2001. The company also announced that it has filed a patent application for the newest and upcoming version of its powerful core technology and ALife-SmartEngine(TM).
The major change in the company`s new product strategy is the unique integration of its products into three distinct product suites:
the ALife SmartBot Suite(TM),
the ALife Smart-Finance Suite(TM) and
the ALife Smart-Mobile Suite(TM).
The ALife SmartBot Suite(TM) is scheduled to be available in Q1, 2001; the ALife Smart-Finance Suite(TM) is scheduled for Q2, 2001 and the ALife Smart- Mobile Suite(TM) for Q3, 2001. Details of functionality and module features will be issued at the time of the product releases through separate press communications.
The product suites will be released on an incremental basis as they are designed in such a way to be expandable without major integration efforts. Certain sub-modules of all suites will therefore be available before the official suite releases (as each sub-module is intended to act on a standalone basis). The product suites will all be Java based and therefore cross platform compatible.
Clients who have purchased ALife products that are or will become modules of the upcoming product suites can purchase the new suites with a general 50% price discount and will not be charged for the modules already purchased.
All product suites are designed to be upward compatible with all future releases.
"In the past two years we have developed a dozen or so very powerful bot solutions for a variety of vertical markets and horizontal applications. The next step is to integrate these products into even more powerful yet easy to use and to maintain solution suites. As the suites are released, our clients will then have the choice to either use just one single product as in the past or to use any number of products of the suite in addition. The suites are designed in such a way that all products work together and can be integrated seamlessly. This is a major step forward for Artificial Life and its clients. The new direction also reflects our current and future research activity. In the past we concentrated on developing bots on a standalone basis. Now we are focusing on flexible bot interfaces, thin client bot technology, bot communication, bot interaction, bot integration and knowledge sharing among bots and applications in general. We feel we lead our competition in all of these areas and as such are documenting this by our current patent filing for the core technology, which is just the first of a series of patents we intend to file for," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life.
With the integration of our products into just three distinct solution suites the Company also wants to achieve a more transparent product profile, a clear product focus and a new pricing scheme. The product suites will be installed as a whole upon purchase. However, non-purchased functions or modules will be logically disabled.
As clients can already order individual product modules or sub-functions of the product suites, overall prices for product features may actually decrease as a result of this strategy. Prices for certain modules and features will start as low as 5,000. USD. Whole product suites, however, may cost up to two million USD or more depending on the range of the license agreement, number of concurrent users and geographic or domain restrictions, for example.
"The product suite approach should allow us to introduce a much more flexible pricing model than in the past where we had to sell products individually. A client now has the choice of buying a whole product suite at once but only enabling certain functions as they require and/or evolve in their familiarity with our offerings. If the client wants to use additional functions later on, we just administer this on a remote basis. The efficiency achieved by the reduction in sales, administration and support costs can now be used to lower our product prices. Therefore we will be able to introduce base prices per module that may be significantly lower than the whole product a client had to buy before. This should make our products even more competitive and attractive to our clients` as they will not necessarily be constrained by high upfront investments to use our technology. Further, this strategy should allow the Company to market and sell its products to a broader potential client base as well," explained Rob Pantano CFO of Artificial Life.
Artificial Life also intends to launch additional webservices as showcases of the new product suites soon. Details will be communicated just prior to formal site release.
About the future ALife Product Suites:
The three new ALife product suites are designed to consist of the following modules:
1) ALife Smart-Bot Suite(TM)
ALife - Knowledge Editor Developer Version
ALife - Knowledge Editor User Version
ALife - Webguide
ALife - Messenger
ALife - User Interface Modules
ALife - Live Chat Operator Module
ALife - Administrator Module
ALife - Logator
Industry specific re-useable and re-sellable Knowledge Bases
All modules contained in the suite will no longer be sold individually after the official suite release, only as part of the whole suite. The suite will be designed and function in such a way, that the individual modules can be switched on or off.
In addition, a new, easy to use and easy to understand user version of the Knowledge Editor will also be offered.
The product suite will be augmented and supported by re-usable knowledge bases and knowledge modules like dictionaries and industry specific vertical knowledge bases that the company intends to produce and sell.
The ALife Smart-Finance Suite(TM) will contain:
2) ALife Smart-Finance Suite
ALife - Portfolio Manager Client
ALife - Portfolio Manager Web Platform
ALife - Financial Spider
ALife - Wealth Manager including 401k Planner
ALife - Data- and News Feed Module
ALife - Operator Interface to Advisors (live chat)
ALife - Finance Bot Knowledge Base
The next version of the Portfolio Manager web platform will have a modular architecture, i.e. modules not required by a customer can be disabled, administrator tools are included to allow "customizing" of areas such as investor quiz, asset classes and assumption sets, for example, by customers.
The Spider will be the most important module of the suite as most clients have indicated very strong interest in such a module (intended features should include: intelligent online and real time data filtering, news filter and a pre-defined financial domain knowledge search engine).
Certain modules of the suite are planned to be available on an ASP basis which will allow the Company to sell sub-modules of the suite on a per use basis without a major upfront investment by clients.
3) ALife Smart-Mobile Suite
ALife Assistant Module
ALife Finance Spider Mobile Version
ALife Bot-Mail
ALife Bot-Me
ALife Banner-Bots
This is the Artificial Life Mobile Computing product suite. The major goal for Mobile Computing is the focus on the release of the first intelligent Mobile Assistant bot modules. Further announcements will follow.
Some supporting modules (Bot-Me, Bot-Mail, Banner-Bots) have already been been produced and will be positioned as a marketing oriented sub suite targeting direct marketing companies and ad agencies. About Artificial Life
Founded in 1994, Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALIF) develops, markets, and supports intelligent software robots for the Internet. The company offers uniquely conversational bot-based products for customer service, consultative selling, Web-based learning, Web site navigation, automated e-mail response, and financial portfolio management. Major customers of the Artificial Life Group include, among others, Pioneer Investment Management, Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston, UBS, Advance Bank, Eagle Star, and MobilCom. The Company recently won a Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC) award (2000) in the category of "Enabling Technologies-User Applications"
Artificial Life, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and maintains subsidiaries in Switzerland, Germany, Russia and Hong Kong. Detailed information about Artificial Life, Inc. and its products is available at www.artificial-life.com
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:
Statements in this press release regarding Artificial Life, Inc.`s business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company`s Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
/CONTACT: Robert Pantano of Artificial Life, 617-266-5542, or rp@artificial-life.com/
Patent filed for upcoming version of core technology and ALife-SmartEngine(TM)
BOSTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston based Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALIF), a leading provider of SmartBot(TM) Internet technology announced today its product strategy for 2001. The company also announced that it has filed a patent application for the newest and upcoming version of its powerful core technology and ALife-SmartEngine(TM).
The major change in the company`s new product strategy is the unique integration of its products into three distinct product suites:
the ALife SmartBot Suite(TM),
the ALife Smart-Finance Suite(TM) and
the ALife Smart-Mobile Suite(TM).
The ALife SmartBot Suite(TM) is scheduled to be available in Q1, 2001; the ALife Smart-Finance Suite(TM) is scheduled for Q2, 2001 and the ALife Smart- Mobile Suite(TM) for Q3, 2001. Details of functionality and module features will be issued at the time of the product releases through separate press communications.
The product suites will be released on an incremental basis as they are designed in such a way to be expandable without major integration efforts. Certain sub-modules of all suites will therefore be available before the official suite releases (as each sub-module is intended to act on a standalone basis). The product suites will all be Java based and therefore cross platform compatible.
Clients who have purchased ALife products that are or will become modules of the upcoming product suites can purchase the new suites with a general 50% price discount and will not be charged for the modules already purchased.
All product suites are designed to be upward compatible with all future releases.
"In the past two years we have developed a dozen or so very powerful bot solutions for a variety of vertical markets and horizontal applications. The next step is to integrate these products into even more powerful yet easy to use and to maintain solution suites. As the suites are released, our clients will then have the choice to either use just one single product as in the past or to use any number of products of the suite in addition. The suites are designed in such a way that all products work together and can be integrated seamlessly. This is a major step forward for Artificial Life and its clients. The new direction also reflects our current and future research activity. In the past we concentrated on developing bots on a standalone basis. Now we are focusing on flexible bot interfaces, thin client bot technology, bot communication, bot interaction, bot integration and knowledge sharing among bots and applications in general. We feel we lead our competition in all of these areas and as such are documenting this by our current patent filing for the core technology, which is just the first of a series of patents we intend to file for," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life.
With the integration of our products into just three distinct solution suites the Company also wants to achieve a more transparent product profile, a clear product focus and a new pricing scheme. The product suites will be installed as a whole upon purchase. However, non-purchased functions or modules will be logically disabled.
As clients can already order individual product modules or sub-functions of the product suites, overall prices for product features may actually decrease as a result of this strategy. Prices for certain modules and features will start as low as 5,000. USD. Whole product suites, however, may cost up to two million USD or more depending on the range of the license agreement, number of concurrent users and geographic or domain restrictions, for example.
"The product suite approach should allow us to introduce a much more flexible pricing model than in the past where we had to sell products individually. A client now has the choice of buying a whole product suite at once but only enabling certain functions as they require and/or evolve in their familiarity with our offerings. If the client wants to use additional functions later on, we just administer this on a remote basis. The efficiency achieved by the reduction in sales, administration and support costs can now be used to lower our product prices. Therefore we will be able to introduce base prices per module that may be significantly lower than the whole product a client had to buy before. This should make our products even more competitive and attractive to our clients` as they will not necessarily be constrained by high upfront investments to use our technology. Further, this strategy should allow the Company to market and sell its products to a broader potential client base as well," explained Rob Pantano CFO of Artificial Life.
Artificial Life also intends to launch additional webservices as showcases of the new product suites soon. Details will be communicated just prior to formal site release.
About the future ALife Product Suites:
The three new ALife product suites are designed to consist of the following modules:
1) ALife Smart-Bot Suite(TM)
ALife - Knowledge Editor Developer Version
ALife - Knowledge Editor User Version
ALife - Webguide
ALife - Messenger
ALife - User Interface Modules
ALife - Live Chat Operator Module
ALife - Administrator Module
ALife - Logator
Industry specific re-useable and re-sellable Knowledge Bases
All modules contained in the suite will no longer be sold individually after the official suite release, only as part of the whole suite. The suite will be designed and function in such a way, that the individual modules can be switched on or off.
In addition, a new, easy to use and easy to understand user version of the Knowledge Editor will also be offered.
The product suite will be augmented and supported by re-usable knowledge bases and knowledge modules like dictionaries and industry specific vertical knowledge bases that the company intends to produce and sell.
The ALife Smart-Finance Suite(TM) will contain:
2) ALife Smart-Finance Suite
ALife - Portfolio Manager Client
ALife - Portfolio Manager Web Platform
ALife - Financial Spider
ALife - Wealth Manager including 401k Planner
ALife - Data- and News Feed Module
ALife - Operator Interface to Advisors (live chat)
ALife - Finance Bot Knowledge Base
The next version of the Portfolio Manager web platform will have a modular architecture, i.e. modules not required by a customer can be disabled, administrator tools are included to allow "customizing" of areas such as investor quiz, asset classes and assumption sets, for example, by customers.
The Spider will be the most important module of the suite as most clients have indicated very strong interest in such a module (intended features should include: intelligent online and real time data filtering, news filter and a pre-defined financial domain knowledge search engine).
Certain modules of the suite are planned to be available on an ASP basis which will allow the Company to sell sub-modules of the suite on a per use basis without a major upfront investment by clients.
3) ALife Smart-Mobile Suite
ALife Assistant Module
ALife Finance Spider Mobile Version
ALife Bot-Mail
ALife Bot-Me
ALife Banner-Bots
This is the Artificial Life Mobile Computing product suite. The major goal for Mobile Computing is the focus on the release of the first intelligent Mobile Assistant bot modules. Further announcements will follow.
Some supporting modules (Bot-Me, Bot-Mail, Banner-Bots) have already been been produced and will be positioned as a marketing oriented sub suite targeting direct marketing companies and ad agencies. About Artificial Life
Founded in 1994, Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALIF) develops, markets, and supports intelligent software robots for the Internet. The company offers uniquely conversational bot-based products for customer service, consultative selling, Web-based learning, Web site navigation, automated e-mail response, and financial portfolio management. Major customers of the Artificial Life Group include, among others, Pioneer Investment Management, Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston, UBS, Advance Bank, Eagle Star, and MobilCom. The Company recently won a Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC) award (2000) in the category of "Enabling Technologies-User Applications"
Artificial Life, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and maintains subsidiaries in Switzerland, Germany, Russia and Hong Kong. Detailed information about Artificial Life, Inc. and its products is available at www.artificial-life.com
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:
Statements in this press release regarding Artificial Life, Inc.`s business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company`s Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
/CONTACT: Robert Pantano of Artificial Life, 617-266-5542, or rp@artificial-life.com/
ARTIFICIAL LIFE INC.
Zusammenfassung des Chats mit dem Artificial Life Deutschland CEO René Gawron
E-CRM, Bot-Me, Spider ... sind nur einige der interessanten Themen, die dabei angesprochen wurden
Am 31.01. beantwortete René Gawron (Chief Executive Officer, Deutschland) im Chat von Suntrade allen Aktionären und Interessierten von Artificial Life insgesamt fast 150 Fragen !
Nachfolgend hat SUNTRADE die wichtigsten Facts für euch zusammengefasst. Viel Spaß beim Lesen:
- Zu aktuellen Projektsituationen wie der Advance Bank oder dem UBS durfte Herr Gawron leider nichts sagen.
- Der Aufbau eine Sprach-Portals in Deutschland zusammen mit MSN für MSNZDF ist nicht geplant.
- Auf die Frage nach einer möglichen Partnerschaft mit Intel wollte er sich nicht äußern.
- Das Sun über Artificial Life Produkte auf seinen Web-Sites informiert war Herrn Gawron neu. Sun ist seines Wissens nach nicht offizieller Distributor von Artificial Life.
- Es gibt inzwischen Referenzen im Assekuranz-Bereich wie z.B. die Eagle Star Versicherung in England.
- Auch der Vertrieb der Banner-Bots läuft an. Ein erstes Beispiel ist der für die Schweizer Internet Messe IEX z.B. unter www.pressetext.ch sichtbare Banner-Bot.
- Die Spider-Technologie soll vorerst vornehmlich im Finanzbereich zum Einsatz kommen. An den Aufbau eines Web-Services ist nicht gedacht, da hiefür große Investitionen in den Aufbau einer entsprechenden Marke erforderlich seien. Die Spider-Technologie soll noch im ersten Halbjahr 2001 auf den Markt gebracht werden.
- Artificial Life hat seine Produktlinie für 2001 in die folgenden drei Bereich aufgeteilt: ALife SmartBot Suite, ALife Smart-Finance Suite und ALife Smart-Mobile Suite, wobei der Großteil der Umsätze aktuell mit Produkten aus dem Bereich der SmartBot Suite und der Smart-Finance Suite gemacht werden.
- E-CRM ist nicht aus der Produktstrategie verschwunden, sondern ist in der Produktfamilie der Smart-Bot Suite Produktlinie aufgegangen. Ziel des Einsatzes der Smart-Bots in einem Call Center sei es, daß der Call Center Mitarbeiter bestimmte Gespräche vom Call Center Mitarbeiter übernehmen kann.
- Für den Einsatz von Smart-Bots im Call Center Bereich sieht Herr Gawron ein sehr großes Potential, da die derzeitigen Kosten für einen Anruf in einem Call Center bei 30 US$ liegen, bei Einsatz der Smart-Bot Technologie liegen sie aber nur bei 10% davon.
- Der weltweite Markt für den Einsatz von Smart Bots in der Interaktion mit Call Centern sei ein Milliarden Dollar Markt.
- Der Aufbau des Geschäfts in Asien läuft gut. Nachdem dort im letzten Jahr in HongKong die Tochtergesellechaft gegründet worden war, ist dort auch der erste Managementposten besetzt worden. Herr Gawron sah das Geschäft in Asien als besonders aussichtsreich an, da es in Asien keine Konkurrenten und auch keine lokal ansässigen Unternehmen gäbe, die sich mit der Entwicklung von Smart-Bots befassen.
- Einstein wird als CD-ROM über den Auer-Verlag vertrieben.
- Gute Sales Mitarbeiter oder Kandidaten für den CTO-Posten dürfen sich gerne bei Herrn Gawron bewerben.
- Die persönliche Einschätzung des momentanen Aktienkurses von Herrn Gawron ist, daß er deutlich zu niedrig steht. Welche weitere Entwicklung des Aktienkurses von Artificial Life er für angemessen hält, dazu durfte er sich selbstverständlich nicht äußern.
- Herr Gawron besitzt wie viele andere Mitarbeiter von Artificial Life auch Stock Options.
- Im Bereich Mobile Internet sieht Herr Gawron für Artificial Life vor allem Potential in der Interface-Technologie. Bot-Me ist für den Einsatz auf PDAs und Handies konzipiert. Neben der Spider-Technologie ist die Bot-Me eines der Alleinstellungsmerkmale von Articial Life.
- Artificial Life ist derzeit noch damit beschäftigt, die Patente für seine Technologie zu sichern.
- Auf die Frage nach der finanziellen Lage, bzw. Liquiditätssorgen verwies Herr Gawron auf die zum dritten Quartal 2000 veröffentlichte Bilanz und meinte ansonsten, daß er sich über das bereits Veröffentlichte hinaus nicht äußern könne.
- Auf den Umsatz pro Mitarbeiter angesprochen meinte Herr Gawron, daß diese Zahl zwar verhältnismäßig gering sei, daß man aber auch nicht vergessen dürfe, daß die Kosten für die Mitarbeiter in St. Petersburg nur bei einem Bruchteil der Kosten von Entwicklungskräften in Europa oder den USA lägen.
- Für die Kunden in Europa sei es kein Problem sondern eher ein Vorteil, dass die Entwicklungsabteilung in St. Petersburg sitzt, da diese sehr flexibel auf die unterschiedlichen Kundenanfordernisse reagieren könne.
- Darauf angesprochen, ob die Antworten der Smart Bots nicht manchmal unbefriedigen seien, sagte Herr Gawron, dies hänge auch immer sehr stark von den Anforderungen und dem Einsatzgebiet des Kunden ab.
- Für Artificial Life sieht Herr Gawron in der gesamten Technologiepalette immer noch eine Einmaligkeitsstellung auf dem Weltmarkt, da potentielle Konkurrenten immer nur Einzelbereiche abdecken (z.B. Egain) oder sich anders positioniert haben.
- Für den Portfolio Manager herrscht nach wie vor Interesse in der gesamten deutschen Bankenlandschaft.
- Die vor kurzem abgeschlossene Banken Fachmesse in Bad Homburg habe eine Reihe von interessanten Gesprächen ergeben.
- Die Zahlen für das vierte Quartal werden wohl erst im März herauskommen, da diese zusammen mit dem Gesamtjahresergebnis vermeldet werden, dessen Ermittlung etwas länger dauert.
- Einen Dual Listing am Neuen Markt ist für Artificial Life im Moment kein Thema, wenn man sich die Bewertung von Technologieaktien am Neuen Markt oder NASDAQ ansieht.
- Bzgl. Investor Relations gibt es regelmässige Gespräche mit Investoren, Analysten und der Financial Community, wobei hier institutionelle Investoren gemeint waren, aber wann es eine "Coverage" für Artificial Life geben würde, müsse man die Analysten selbst fragen.
- Auf die Frage, ob eine Kapitalerhöhung geplant sei, sagte Herr Gawron, dass dies zum Maßnahmenspektrum aller börsengelisteten Unternehmen gehöre.
- In Frankfurt hat Artificial Life derzeit so um die 30 Mitarbeiter.
- Die Shareholder Party im letzten Jahr ist sehr erfolgreich gelaufen. Es wird mit Sicherheit eine weitere Shareholder-Party in diesem Jahr geben, ein genauer Termin wird noch bekannt gegeben.
- Alife Venture ist nach wie vor aktiv und ist erst vor kurzem eine Beteiligung eingegangen (siehe Presseveröffentlichungen).
- Artificial Life sieht für seine Produkte Potential in ganz Europa, insbesonder in Grossbritannien und Italien sieht der Markt besonders attraktiv aus.
- Die Selbstlernfähigkeit der Smart-Bots gestaltet sich nicht so einfach, da die Smart-Bots u.a. zwischen dem Wahrheitsgehalt einer Aussage unterscheiden können müssten.
- Eine feindliche Übernahme über die Börse kann trotz der derzeit niedrigen Bewertung ausgeschlossen werden, da Eberhard Schönburg selbst mehr als 50% der Aktien hält.
- Während im vergangenen Jahren dem "Engineering-Bereich eine große Rolle zukam, spielt jetzt zunehmend der Marketing und Sales Bereich eine größere Bedeutung.
Diese Analyse wurde verfasst von M. Kamp (Dowboarder) am: 05.02.2001
Zusammenfassung des Chats mit dem Artificial Life Deutschland CEO René Gawron
E-CRM, Bot-Me, Spider ... sind nur einige der interessanten Themen, die dabei angesprochen wurden
Am 31.01. beantwortete René Gawron (Chief Executive Officer, Deutschland) im Chat von Suntrade allen Aktionären und Interessierten von Artificial Life insgesamt fast 150 Fragen !
Nachfolgend hat SUNTRADE die wichtigsten Facts für euch zusammengefasst. Viel Spaß beim Lesen:
- Zu aktuellen Projektsituationen wie der Advance Bank oder dem UBS durfte Herr Gawron leider nichts sagen.
- Der Aufbau eine Sprach-Portals in Deutschland zusammen mit MSN für MSNZDF ist nicht geplant.
- Auf die Frage nach einer möglichen Partnerschaft mit Intel wollte er sich nicht äußern.
- Das Sun über Artificial Life Produkte auf seinen Web-Sites informiert war Herrn Gawron neu. Sun ist seines Wissens nach nicht offizieller Distributor von Artificial Life.
- Es gibt inzwischen Referenzen im Assekuranz-Bereich wie z.B. die Eagle Star Versicherung in England.
- Auch der Vertrieb der Banner-Bots läuft an. Ein erstes Beispiel ist der für die Schweizer Internet Messe IEX z.B. unter www.pressetext.ch sichtbare Banner-Bot.
- Die Spider-Technologie soll vorerst vornehmlich im Finanzbereich zum Einsatz kommen. An den Aufbau eines Web-Services ist nicht gedacht, da hiefür große Investitionen in den Aufbau einer entsprechenden Marke erforderlich seien. Die Spider-Technologie soll noch im ersten Halbjahr 2001 auf den Markt gebracht werden.
- Artificial Life hat seine Produktlinie für 2001 in die folgenden drei Bereich aufgeteilt: ALife SmartBot Suite, ALife Smart-Finance Suite und ALife Smart-Mobile Suite, wobei der Großteil der Umsätze aktuell mit Produkten aus dem Bereich der SmartBot Suite und der Smart-Finance Suite gemacht werden.
- E-CRM ist nicht aus der Produktstrategie verschwunden, sondern ist in der Produktfamilie der Smart-Bot Suite Produktlinie aufgegangen. Ziel des Einsatzes der Smart-Bots in einem Call Center sei es, daß der Call Center Mitarbeiter bestimmte Gespräche vom Call Center Mitarbeiter übernehmen kann.
- Für den Einsatz von Smart-Bots im Call Center Bereich sieht Herr Gawron ein sehr großes Potential, da die derzeitigen Kosten für einen Anruf in einem Call Center bei 30 US$ liegen, bei Einsatz der Smart-Bot Technologie liegen sie aber nur bei 10% davon.
- Der weltweite Markt für den Einsatz von Smart Bots in der Interaktion mit Call Centern sei ein Milliarden Dollar Markt.
- Der Aufbau des Geschäfts in Asien läuft gut. Nachdem dort im letzten Jahr in HongKong die Tochtergesellechaft gegründet worden war, ist dort auch der erste Managementposten besetzt worden. Herr Gawron sah das Geschäft in Asien als besonders aussichtsreich an, da es in Asien keine Konkurrenten und auch keine lokal ansässigen Unternehmen gäbe, die sich mit der Entwicklung von Smart-Bots befassen.
- Einstein wird als CD-ROM über den Auer-Verlag vertrieben.
- Gute Sales Mitarbeiter oder Kandidaten für den CTO-Posten dürfen sich gerne bei Herrn Gawron bewerben.
- Die persönliche Einschätzung des momentanen Aktienkurses von Herrn Gawron ist, daß er deutlich zu niedrig steht. Welche weitere Entwicklung des Aktienkurses von Artificial Life er für angemessen hält, dazu durfte er sich selbstverständlich nicht äußern.
- Herr Gawron besitzt wie viele andere Mitarbeiter von Artificial Life auch Stock Options.
- Im Bereich Mobile Internet sieht Herr Gawron für Artificial Life vor allem Potential in der Interface-Technologie. Bot-Me ist für den Einsatz auf PDAs und Handies konzipiert. Neben der Spider-Technologie ist die Bot-Me eines der Alleinstellungsmerkmale von Articial Life.
- Artificial Life ist derzeit noch damit beschäftigt, die Patente für seine Technologie zu sichern.
- Auf die Frage nach der finanziellen Lage, bzw. Liquiditätssorgen verwies Herr Gawron auf die zum dritten Quartal 2000 veröffentlichte Bilanz und meinte ansonsten, daß er sich über das bereits Veröffentlichte hinaus nicht äußern könne.
- Auf den Umsatz pro Mitarbeiter angesprochen meinte Herr Gawron, daß diese Zahl zwar verhältnismäßig gering sei, daß man aber auch nicht vergessen dürfe, daß die Kosten für die Mitarbeiter in St. Petersburg nur bei einem Bruchteil der Kosten von Entwicklungskräften in Europa oder den USA lägen.
- Für die Kunden in Europa sei es kein Problem sondern eher ein Vorteil, dass die Entwicklungsabteilung in St. Petersburg sitzt, da diese sehr flexibel auf die unterschiedlichen Kundenanfordernisse reagieren könne.
- Darauf angesprochen, ob die Antworten der Smart Bots nicht manchmal unbefriedigen seien, sagte Herr Gawron, dies hänge auch immer sehr stark von den Anforderungen und dem Einsatzgebiet des Kunden ab.
- Für Artificial Life sieht Herr Gawron in der gesamten Technologiepalette immer noch eine Einmaligkeitsstellung auf dem Weltmarkt, da potentielle Konkurrenten immer nur Einzelbereiche abdecken (z.B. Egain) oder sich anders positioniert haben.
- Für den Portfolio Manager herrscht nach wie vor Interesse in der gesamten deutschen Bankenlandschaft.
- Die vor kurzem abgeschlossene Banken Fachmesse in Bad Homburg habe eine Reihe von interessanten Gesprächen ergeben.
- Die Zahlen für das vierte Quartal werden wohl erst im März herauskommen, da diese zusammen mit dem Gesamtjahresergebnis vermeldet werden, dessen Ermittlung etwas länger dauert.
- Einen Dual Listing am Neuen Markt ist für Artificial Life im Moment kein Thema, wenn man sich die Bewertung von Technologieaktien am Neuen Markt oder NASDAQ ansieht.
- Bzgl. Investor Relations gibt es regelmässige Gespräche mit Investoren, Analysten und der Financial Community, wobei hier institutionelle Investoren gemeint waren, aber wann es eine "Coverage" für Artificial Life geben würde, müsse man die Analysten selbst fragen.
- Auf die Frage, ob eine Kapitalerhöhung geplant sei, sagte Herr Gawron, dass dies zum Maßnahmenspektrum aller börsengelisteten Unternehmen gehöre.
- In Frankfurt hat Artificial Life derzeit so um die 30 Mitarbeiter.
- Die Shareholder Party im letzten Jahr ist sehr erfolgreich gelaufen. Es wird mit Sicherheit eine weitere Shareholder-Party in diesem Jahr geben, ein genauer Termin wird noch bekannt gegeben.
- Alife Venture ist nach wie vor aktiv und ist erst vor kurzem eine Beteiligung eingegangen (siehe Presseveröffentlichungen).
- Artificial Life sieht für seine Produkte Potential in ganz Europa, insbesonder in Grossbritannien und Italien sieht der Markt besonders attraktiv aus.
- Die Selbstlernfähigkeit der Smart-Bots gestaltet sich nicht so einfach, da die Smart-Bots u.a. zwischen dem Wahrheitsgehalt einer Aussage unterscheiden können müssten.
- Eine feindliche Übernahme über die Börse kann trotz der derzeit niedrigen Bewertung ausgeschlossen werden, da Eberhard Schönburg selbst mehr als 50% der Aktien hält.
- Während im vergangenen Jahren dem "Engineering-Bereich eine große Rolle zukam, spielt jetzt zunehmend der Marketing und Sales Bereich eine größere Bedeutung.
Diese Analyse wurde verfasst von M. Kamp (Dowboarder) am: 05.02.2001
ALIF erneut gegen den Trend im Plus. Ist schon erstaunlich!
SK
SK
Ist ja schon unheimlich ruhig hier, sogar M_III ist nicht mehr zu hören, na ja, schade.
Leider bekommen wir ja keine Chartanlyse mehr von F_2, aber soviel ich weiß sind wir vor wenigen Tagen ja wieder klassisch von der 38 Tage Linie abgeprallt. Der kleinen Aufwärtstrend der sich nach unserem Tief Anfang März und den darauf folgenden massiven Käufen! gebildet hat, scheint aber weiter noch zu bestehen.
Mal sehen ob wir diese oder nächste Woche die 38 Tage Linien und den langfristigen Abwärtstrend durchbrechen können.
Es wir spannend pünktlich zur CeBIT.
Smile
Leider bekommen wir ja keine Chartanlyse mehr von F_2, aber soviel ich weiß sind wir vor wenigen Tagen ja wieder klassisch von der 38 Tage Linie abgeprallt. Der kleinen Aufwärtstrend der sich nach unserem Tief Anfang März und den darauf folgenden massiven Käufen! gebildet hat, scheint aber weiter noch zu bestehen.
Mal sehen ob wir diese oder nächste Woche die 38 Tage Linien und den langfristigen Abwärtstrend durchbrechen können.
Es wir spannend pünktlich zur CeBIT.
Smile
Sorry, aber was gibt es bei dem Chart zu erkennen?
Gibt doch gute Bücher. (Technische Analyse von J.J.Murphy z.B).
Das Buch hilft allerdings nicht, einen Chart zu deuten wie man es braucht und gern hätte. Hat mir ziemlich die Augen geöffnet!
Geh zu bigcharts.com und schau dir den Jahreschart an.
Ich würde einfach JETZT nicht kaufen. Abwarten, auch wenns oft schwer fällt (NICHT für Daytrader gesprochen).
Gibt doch gute Bücher. (Technische Analyse von J.J.Murphy z.B).
Das Buch hilft allerdings nicht, einen Chart zu deuten wie man es braucht und gern hätte. Hat mir ziemlich die Augen geöffnet!
Geh zu bigcharts.com und schau dir den Jahreschart an.
Ich würde einfach JETZT nicht kaufen. Abwarten, auch wenns oft schwer fällt (NICHT für Daytrader gesprochen).
Oh man was ist nur mit dieser Frima los? Wie oft wollte ich schon verbilligen? Gut, dass ich es nicht gemacht hatte!
SK
SK
Aus und vorbei würd ich sagen.
Artificial Life Announces Closing Of Its European Operations And Drastic Cut Back Of Operations and Expenses in The United States
Company plans to move headquarters to NY
BOSTON, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --Boston based Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALIF - news) announced today that it has shut down its operations in Russia and that its German and Swiss subsidiaries will file for bankruptcy protection next week. The Company has also laid off almost all of its global and US staff. Global expenses have been cut back over 80%.
The Company also announced that it has entered into merger talks with certain companies.
``We are in the process of a major corporate restructuring and consolidation and are re-inventing the Company by adjusting to the current circumstances in the financial and global Internet markets. As it is still hard for us to raise sufficient funds for operations, we are reducing our operations and expenses to a bare minimum by drastic measures. We have closed and sold our Russian entity and will file for bankruptcy protection in Switzerland and Germany. The US office has been reduced to a handful of key employees. However, the company has generated award winning and very valuable technology over the last few years representing development efforts of several hundred person years. Therefore, we believe that these technology assets can and should now be used to help us to recover by selling nonexclusive source code licenses to interested partners and clients around the world. This way we take advantage of our valuable technology, but do not have to incur any longer the expenses associated with a support infrastructure``, said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.
The Company also announced that Nasdaq has notified the Company on May, 30, 2001, that it has determined that the Company is not in compliance with the net tangible asset requirements for continued listing on the National Market. The net tangible assets requirement is $4,000,000. However, the Company will request a hearing with Nasdaq and plans to submit and present an explanation and turn around plan to Nasdaq. The hearing request will stay the delisting (scheduled for June 7, 2001) pending a final determination by Nasdaq.
Former CFO Robert Pantano has resigned. The new CFO of the company is Chin Phaik Lim. Chin graduated from Curtin University Perth, WA, in 1988. She worked as an accountant in a chartered firm, Bourne Griffiths and for Barrington Partners thereafter. After moving to Sydney she worked as a Financial Controller at Frank Russell, Australia (headquartered in Tacoma, Washington State). Chin had full finance, administration, statutory, legal and hr responsibilities. She also set up the New Zealand branch office for the company. In 1996 she joined ACEA, Association of Consulting Engineers Australia as the company secretary, financial and administration manager with full responsibilities. Since 1997 Chin worked as a senior consultant for an executive management-leasing firm in Hong Kong.
``It`s a tough time for the company now, but also a good time for a new business approach. I am ready to help out with my international contacts and experience and I am very excited about this opportunity as I believe in the company and its great technology and the value of the assets generated by Artificial Life over the past years as I have noticed personally the very positive reception of the Artificial Life technology in Asia. I am determined to help the company to turn around and to support and improve the fundraising process and IP licensing. I also intend to help the company evaluate all options in the current situation such as a going private or mergers with potential candidates around the globe. I am driven by optimization of shareholder value``, said Chin Lim, CFO of Artificial Life.``
The Company is in negotiations with potential investors and lenders to secure short term funding for operations, as previously disclosed.
The company also announced that it plans to move its headquarters from Boston, MA, to New York City, NY, in June/July 2001.
Mc
Artificial Life Announces Closing Of Its European Operations And Drastic Cut Back Of Operations and Expenses in The United States
Company plans to move headquarters to NY
BOSTON, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --Boston based Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALIF - news) announced today that it has shut down its operations in Russia and that its German and Swiss subsidiaries will file for bankruptcy protection next week. The Company has also laid off almost all of its global and US staff. Global expenses have been cut back over 80%.
The Company also announced that it has entered into merger talks with certain companies.
``We are in the process of a major corporate restructuring and consolidation and are re-inventing the Company by adjusting to the current circumstances in the financial and global Internet markets. As it is still hard for us to raise sufficient funds for operations, we are reducing our operations and expenses to a bare minimum by drastic measures. We have closed and sold our Russian entity and will file for bankruptcy protection in Switzerland and Germany. The US office has been reduced to a handful of key employees. However, the company has generated award winning and very valuable technology over the last few years representing development efforts of several hundred person years. Therefore, we believe that these technology assets can and should now be used to help us to recover by selling nonexclusive source code licenses to interested partners and clients around the world. This way we take advantage of our valuable technology, but do not have to incur any longer the expenses associated with a support infrastructure``, said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.
The Company also announced that Nasdaq has notified the Company on May, 30, 2001, that it has determined that the Company is not in compliance with the net tangible asset requirements for continued listing on the National Market. The net tangible assets requirement is $4,000,000. However, the Company will request a hearing with Nasdaq and plans to submit and present an explanation and turn around plan to Nasdaq. The hearing request will stay the delisting (scheduled for June 7, 2001) pending a final determination by Nasdaq.
Former CFO Robert Pantano has resigned. The new CFO of the company is Chin Phaik Lim. Chin graduated from Curtin University Perth, WA, in 1988. She worked as an accountant in a chartered firm, Bourne Griffiths and for Barrington Partners thereafter. After moving to Sydney she worked as a Financial Controller at Frank Russell, Australia (headquartered in Tacoma, Washington State). Chin had full finance, administration, statutory, legal and hr responsibilities. She also set up the New Zealand branch office for the company. In 1996 she joined ACEA, Association of Consulting Engineers Australia as the company secretary, financial and administration manager with full responsibilities. Since 1997 Chin worked as a senior consultant for an executive management-leasing firm in Hong Kong.
``It`s a tough time for the company now, but also a good time for a new business approach. I am ready to help out with my international contacts and experience and I am very excited about this opportunity as I believe in the company and its great technology and the value of the assets generated by Artificial Life over the past years as I have noticed personally the very positive reception of the Artificial Life technology in Asia. I am determined to help the company to turn around and to support and improve the fundraising process and IP licensing. I also intend to help the company evaluate all options in the current situation such as a going private or mergers with potential candidates around the globe. I am driven by optimization of shareholder value``, said Chin Lim, CFO of Artificial Life.``
The Company is in negotiations with potential investors and lenders to secure short term funding for operations, as previously disclosed.
The company also announced that it plans to move its headquarters from Boston, MA, to New York City, NY, in June/July 2001.
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