IntelliCorp Inc, Mountain View, California has been awarded a volume purchase contract for its flagship product, the Knowledge Engineering Environment software development system, from the McDonnell Aircraft Co division of McDonnell Douglas Corp. McDonnell Aircraft Co wants 30 copies of the Environment as part of an extensive training and development effort. Fifteen copies of the KEE system will be retained for applications development at McDonnell Aircraft’s headquarters in St Louis, Missouri while the remaining 15 copies are earmarked for an artificial intelligence training centre at Washington University, also in St Louis. All copies will be run on Sun Microsystems Sun-3 workstations. Washington University, in conjunction with McDonnell Aircraft, intends to offer a graduate-level certificate program in artificial intelligence and 100 McDonnell employees will attend a 13-week training programme on KEE – 25 per quarter.
