On 12 Apr 96 ,E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
From: IN%"educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu" 5-APR-1996 01:25:00.85
IBM'S INTELLIGENT MINER DIGS OUT THE GOOD STUFF IBM plans to offer companies "data mining" software and services, allowing them to make better use of disparate pieces of information stored in their computer systems. The Intelligent Miner software will be available on IBM's RS/6000 servers by the fall, and on other platforms by year end. The company also plans to develop Intelligent Decision Server software for local area network-based information analysis. (Investor's Business Daily 3 Apr 96 A9)
Anyone have any _specific_ ideas on how their Intelligent Miner system works? It would appear to be relevant to the identity-spoofing discussions. -Allen
Not really, it's a tool used in Data Warehousing/Decission Support Systems. Here is what it is in a nut shell. A company creates a Data Warehouse, defining it's data universe in terms of business rules and practices. Data Mining is the process by which users try to make sence of all the data. They call it "intelligent" because it supports natural language queries, ie the end user does not need to know SQL or the table layouts to retrieve the information they want. Very sketchy explination, but there are entire volumes written on the subject, and it's new technology so the exact definition varies depending on who you ask. I have been developing systems like this for the past year, and I still can't give people a cut and dry answer as to what the hell it is. Regards, Michael C. Peponis Public Key Avalible Via Key Servers, or Finger