Jeffrey Kephart of IBM has been working on an "immune system" to counter computer viruses. It could be "the 1st multimillion- dollar artificial life application." [Hugo de Garis (degaris@hip.atr.co.jp), comp.ai.alife, 8/1/94.] (de Garis has circulated a report on the ALife IV conference, 7/6/94.)

Another account: IBM trained a neural network with clean and infected software, and now has a detector for new viruses -- even in compressed files. The product is IBM AntiVirus 1.06, patent pending. "Keeping up with these new viruses does require a lot of expertise and technology, but that's what IBM Research is famous for." [Jeffrey Kephart. tesauro@watson.ibm.com, connectionists, 7/15/94.]

You can search a large collection of NN bibtex bibliographies on http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/bib/Neural/. Other CS- related bibliographies are in ftp://ftp.cs.umanitoba.ca/pub /bibliographies/index.html. [David Rosen (rosen@unr.edu), Neuron Digest, 6/30/94.]

SLUG4 is a commercial neural-network product in Borland Pascal, with 52-page manual and object-oriented NN toolkit. $59, plus $10 shipping from Southern Scientific, South Africa; 27-21-788-6613 Fax. The SLUG3 public-domain version can be found in NEURAL22.ZIP at more than 30 archive sites. Charles F. Marais (chuck@iaccess.cstat.co.za). [comp.ai, 7/2/94. David Joslin.]