To: Distribution From: David K. Kahaner ONRFE [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp] Re: NTT Review / May 1990 17 May 1990 ABSTRACT. A new English journal from NTT is described. NTT Review is an English language journal published by this huge Japanese telecommunications company (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company). The format of the journal is moderately technical. Plans and future strategies are presented here as well as many overview articles. For example, in the May 1990 (vol 2, no 3) issue NTT lays out its service vision for the 21st century. This includes * Visual, Intelligent and Personal Services in the year 2005, including pocket telephones, text mail equipment, and visual telephones. * Visual communications services, including high definition, natural looking reproduction of images and crisp display of text, wall mounted video displays, multi-screen and 3-D displays, indoor and outdoor visual communication equipment. Applications include video shopping, medical examination and remote supervision, video database (electronic museum, electronic library, etc.) * Intelligent communications customized services including text translation, confidential communications, voiceprint dialing, time- designated communications, handicapped communications (characters, voice, sign-language, lip-reading, braille, etc.), answering services, data forwarding, storage, and retrieval, schedule management, fuzzy retrieval, natural language and data retrieval, text bulletin boards. * Personal communications services using personal ID numbers allowing tracking of individual, and billing, regardless of location, displaying names of transmitters, calling individual names, auto-person calling, selective reception, individual numbers that move when individual moves. * A network supporting these services. NTT expects to begin installing a broadband ISDN in 1995, to be completed in 2015, whence ALL HOMES THROUGHOUT THE NATION WILL BE CONNECTED VIA OPTICAL FIBER. This issue also focuses on the development of systems that can generate programming languages appropriate to support the programming projects NTT expects to have. Sophisticated languages need to have standardized specifications, easily retargetable compilers, and a structure that will facilitate rehosting. Three articles describe the development of compilers for Ada, C, and Lisp in detail. It is also mentioned that compilers have been developed for COBOL, and FORTRAN although there is no detailed information given about the latter. Summaries of reports in NTT's other technical journal, NTT R&D (vol 39, No 3) are also given. The titles of some that may be of interest to computer scientists are given below. Most good technical libraries already subscribe to NTT R&D; NTT Review is only about one year old. R&D in NTT AI Technologies in Communication, Now and in the Future Multivendor-oriented Software Architecture Speech Information Processing Technology Visual Information Processing Technology Natural Language Processing Technology Knowledge Processing Technology Expert System Development Support Facilities of KBMS Presto: A Multiprocessor System for Production System KBMS Software Troubleshooting Expert System A Specification Design Expert System Educational Assistant Expert System (CAIRN) Handwritten String Recognition Using Word Knowledge Basic Technologies for Knowledge Representation and Acquisition Fundamental Technology for Inference Systems. Questions about this journal should be addressed to NTT Review c/o Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 1-6 Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 Japan -----------END OF REPORT-------------------