Open Sesame! Ships The First Learning Agent Arrives on the Macintosh

September 29, 1993 -- CAMBRIDGE, MA. -- Charles River Analytics Inc. today
announced that Open Sesame! 1.0 for the Macintosh is shipping.  Open
Sesame! is the first software assistant that increases productivity by
learning to automate routine desktop tasks for the user.  Built with
learning agent technology, Open Sesame! sits on the desktop, observes user
actions in the background, learns repetitive patterns, and automates them
after approval.

Unveiled at the MACWORLD Expo/Boston in August 1993, Open Sesame! has
received early endorsements from the press. Tim Kilroy, contributing
editor of The Active Window, the Macintosh publication of the Boston
Computer Society said, "Intelligent ag nts are incredibly intriguing, and
promise to change the way we use computers. Open Sesame! is an excellent
start. I am very impressed with the thought and foresight that has gone
into this application."

Open Sesame! provides system, Finder and application level automation to
the user. Open Sesame! can automate a variety of tasks involving
operations on folders, applications, documents, windows and other desktop
objects. Here is a sample observation from Open Sesame!:

Commander, I notice you often open "Schedule" whenever
you open "Project Budget". Do you want me to automate this task?

All the user has to do is say yes and Open Sesame! does the rest,
performing repetitive tasks for the user automatically. Open Sesame! will
increase user productivity by reducing the number of mouse clicks required
to accomplish a given task, will perform routine desktop maintenance for
the user and will enable the average user to take full advantage of
advanced System 7 features like aliases and stationery without effort.

Open Sesame! uses Apple events in monitoring user actions. The
functionality of the product will increase as more and more applications
support the Apple Event Core suite. Power users can use Open Sesame! with
AppleScript and other macro utilities for unprecedented power with ease of
use.

Beta users in corporate, government, and educational sites have found Open
Sesame! easy to use, intuitive, and an indispensable daily tool for
increasing overall productivity. "I love the unintrusive way it makes
suggestions, and the screen for accepting and modifying suggestions is
very easy to work with. I like the product.", said Bill Schmarzo, Manager
of World-Wide Channel Development at Taligent, Inc.

Open Sesame! is available through leading resellers in the United States.
The  suggested retail price for Open Sesame! is $129. Open Sesame!
requires an Apple  Macintosh computer running System 7.0 or later, and
500K of free memory.

Charles River Analytics develops and offers learning agent software that
make personal computing "easy-to-do" instead of just "easy-to-use".
Founded in 1983, the company is a pioneer in hybrid neural network and
knowledge-based systems leading a technological revolution that will
radically change the way we use computers with software that assist the
user.

Charles River Analytics Inc.
55 Wheeler Street
Cambridge. MA 02138
Tel  (617) 491-3474,   Fax (617) 868-0780
Direct Sales (800) 913-3535

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