The Time Traveler Convention was held on May 7 at MIT. Conference organizer Amal Dorai reports: "Unfortunately, we had no confirmed time travelers visit us." …Yet.
We've devoted this month's issue to spreadsheets and AI, including my Model Master, a program which uses Prolog to reduce spreadsheet errors; neural nets and cellular automata in Excel; notes on Mike Kassof about his work on logical spreadsheets; and Amzi!'s ARulesXL, which by embedding logical rules in Excel, makes possible apps that are not practical using Excel on its own.
Cloak. Decoy. Spoof. Snare. Are these the words of an interstellar Star Trek spy? Not this time. Instead, they're the keys to keeping your enterprise safe and secure.
