Creare Inc. (Hanover, NH), Two-Phase Computational Fluid Dynamics. (Mathematical Sciences.)

Daniel H. Wagner Associates (Hampton, VA), Numerical Solutions for Aircraft Tracking and Position Prediction. (Mathematical Sciences.)

Ecodynamics Research Associates Inc. (Albuquerque, NM), Robust and Fast Numerical Grid Generation. (Mathematical Sciences.)

TCI Software Research Inc. (Las Cruces, NM), Mathematical Objects for Display and Manipulation. (Mathematical Sciences.)

Signal Analytics Corp. (Vienna, VA), Automatic Classification of Nanoplankton using a Neural Network on Color Fluorescence Microscope Images. (Ocean Sciences.)

Intelligent Text Processing Inc. (Santa Monica, CA), Wide-Coverage Syntactic Processing. (Behavioral and Neural Sciences.)

Paradigm Development Group Ltd. (Fairfax, VA), Examination of Automated Problem Structuring Techniques. (Social and Economic Sciences.)

Paradigm Development Group Ltd. (Fairfax, VA), Decision Analysis Convergence Techniques. (Social and Economic Sciences.)

Smart Software, Inc. (Belmont, MA), Forecasting Fluctuating Demand in Manufacturing. (Social and Economic Sciences.)

Engineering Software R&D Inc. (Clayton, MO), Software Architecture for Advanced Finite Element Analysis Methods on Parallel and Distributed Computational Systems. (Advanced Scientific Computing.)

DCS Corp. (Minneapolis, MN), Estimating Software Effort Completion. (Computer and Computation Research.)

Rainbow Analysis Systems Group (Austin, TX), A New Simulation Method for System Dependability Analysis. (Computer and Computation Research.)

Top Level Inc. (Amherst, MA), Scalable Supercomputing: Integrating Distributed Processing in a General-Purpose Parallel Programming Language. (Computer and Computation Research.)

InfoLogic Software Inc. (Troy, NY), Methods to Test a Large, Complex Very Large Scale Integration Computer Aided Design Software System. (Microelectronic Information Processing Systems.)

Coleman Research Corp. (Orlando, FL), Application of Model- Based Predictive Control to Fossil Power Plants. (Electrical and Communication Systems.)

ECC Inc. (Fairfax, VA), Artificial Intelligence in Power System Voltage Control. (Electrical and Communication Systems.)

Knowledge Based Systems Inc. (College Station, TX), Intelligent Assistant for Simulation Model Generation from IDEF3 Process Descriptions. (Design and Manufacturing Systems.)

Knowledge Based Systems Inc. (College Station, TX), Knowledge Based Information Model Integration. (Design and Manufacturing Systems.)

Real-Time Intelligent Systems Corp. (Worcester, MA), Artificial Intelligence Support for Statistical Process Control of Discrete Manufacturing Processes. (Design and Manufacturing Systems.)

Stylometrics Inc. (Quincy, MA), A Computational Model of 3D/2D Apparel Pattern Design and Expert System. (Design and Manufacturing Systems.)

Energy International Inc. (Bellevue, WA), Parallel Process Simulation Techniques for Combustion Analysis. (Chemical and Thermal Systems.)

Electrostatic Applications (Morgan Hill, CA), A Software Tool for Analytical Solutions of Laplace's Equation. (Science and Engineering Education.)

Hypermedia Systems Inc. (Chicago, IL), The Interactive Structural Analysis Instructor and Helper. (Science and Engineering Education.)

McLean Media (Mill Valley, CA), Women in Science: A CD-ROM Multimedia Database. (Science and Engineering Education.)

Scientific Research Associates Inc. (Glastonbury, CT), Educational Software for Demonstrating Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Device Physics. (Science and Engineering Education.)

I note that Virginia received 5, Massachusetts 4, Texas and California 3, Connecticut and New Mexico 2. (It's interesting to speculate whether these states submit better software proposals or just more such proposals.) Two of the companies each received two awards.

The two IRIS proposals appear to be within the purview of the Robotics and Machine Intelligence (RMI) program. (The funding itself comes from the SBIR Program Office, Division of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation.) RMI is similar to an engineering program, and is comfortable with applied proposals in speech recognition, computer vision, pattern recognition, and robotics. Applied AI, expert system, and database proposals may have a better chance in their areas of application than in Topic 20 (where fundamental research is favored).