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Las Vegas, NV, November 17, 1999 - Mindmaker, Inc, a leader in the development of Intelligent Personal Assistants, Speech I/O Interfaces, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and other Artificial Intelligence Technology, today announced it received a top distinction at the 1999 Fall Comdex when its DataScope 3.0 software, developed by Cygron Ltd, Mindmaker’s wholly owned subsidiary in Hungary, won the annual "Best of Comdex" award, in the Best Personal Productivity Software category. DataScope 3.0 beta, which was announced Monday at Comdex, is a data mining and decision support software.

Nominees in the Best Productivity Software award are judged on their ability to boost personal productivity and reduce the cost of administration, support and overall ownership of the products. In announcing the award, PC Week praised the MindMaker’s DateScope 3.0 for its functionality. At Fall Comdex, PC Week Labs analysts and PC Week Corporate Partners comb the entire trade show floor and numerous exhibitor suites to choose the best new products and emerging technologies among the hundreds introduced. Mindmaker’s Datascope 3.0 was distinct and purposeful to capture the esteemed honor.

DataScope 3.0’s user-friendly interface makes trend, pattern, and exception recognition simple. Users can examine data from many viewpoints simultaneously, translate numbers into subjective judgments and query data without any commands or formulas, and allows users to find time-based relationships in transactional databases. The software’s decision support module ranks alternatives based on user-specified preferences.

"We are targeting corporate users with this product, but data mining and decision support are not just for enterprises anymore. With this technology, everyone, from individuals to small businesses to department managers, can access, can utilize all of their information more effectively, " said Vicky Marlow, Director of Sales and Marketing for Mindmaker, Inc. "The software’s power, ease of use, and customizability make it ideal for an extremely wide variety of users."

For more details and a presentation, stop by our booth in LVCC at L7432R or contact Mindmaker, Inc. at its San Jose, California corporate headquarters.

For more information about DataScope 3.0 take a look at the product description.

About Mindmaker, Inc.

Mindmaker, Inc. was founded in 1996, with the mission to become the leader in Intelligent Assistant-Centric Computing, providing AI-enabled development platforms for developers, and AI-enabled applications and Intelligent Assistants for the home and business user. Mindmaker’s customers and development partners include Creative Technology, Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products. In addition to its corporate headquarters in California, Mindmaker has three wholly-owned subsidiaries, two in Hungary and one in Singapore. Mindmaker, Ltd., located in Hungary, is the first subsidiary, and focuses on machine learning and reasoning technology and intelligent assistant product development. Cygron Research and Development, Ltd., also located in Hungary, is the second subsidiary, and is actively involved in data mining and decision support technology and product development. In August 1999, Mindmaker started the operations of Mindmaker, Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary located in Singapore, which focuses on multi-modal user interface technology development.

Datascope is a trademark of Cygron Research and Development Ltd. and is licensed to Mindmaker, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark Microsoft Corp.