PRESS REPORTS & NEWS RELEASES

• Chinese Immigrants Build High-Tech Niche
  By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY, Money Section, June 4, 1999

  PALO ALTO, Calif. - When the Chinese government cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 10 years ago, Daniel Zhu was working on a doctorate at Virginia Tech, and Hong Chen was pursuing his doctorate in New York.

  Today, Zhu runs Zaptron Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up company. Chen is founder of Internet company GRIC Communications, also in Silicon Valley. Zhu and Chen were among 50,000 Chinese students studying in the USA who were granted permanent residency after the Tiananmen massacre. And they are among many Chinese immigrants who've built high-tech careers and companies in Silicon Valley...

  But both are beginning to branch out with ventures in their homeland:

  • Zhu, 40, helped launch research projects at four Chinese universities on data mining, which Zaptron does.
  • GRIC has 450 customers worldwide and is seeking a deal with China Telecom. Chen, 36, who has 130 employees, gets business plans every week from aspiring entrepreneurs in China. ...... 
    
    

• Zaptron's Novel Data Mining Technology .....
  by Alex Chen, Silicon Valley Journal (in Chinese), April 1999

• Looking Homeward -  Tiananmen Exiles Lead Way into China's Hi-tech Future
  Far East Economic Review, March 11, 1999, by Bruce Gilley in San Francisco

  The 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing may be the best thing that's ever happened to China's hi-tech industry. After the crackdown, Washington granted more than 50,000 Chinese students the right to remain indefinitely. ......Today, they form the nucleus of a talented new generation of information technology entrepreneurs that is forging commercial links with China. ............

  Daniel Zhu, President of Zaptron Systems,  is another beneficiary of post-Tiananmen amnesty who has established more far-reaching ties in China. Since 1997, the company has been heavily involved in research done in China....

• Zaptron Releases a New Data Mining Toolkit
  Data Mining News Weekly, May, 1998

• Zaptron Solves Moving-Map Data Fusion Probelm for GPS Navigation
  Eletrical Engineering Times, July 20, 1998
  Las Vegas - The International Conference on Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion-Fusion '98-shed a light on the blending of smart technologies with statistical analysis for applications ranging from dashboard-mounted moving maps to battlefield simulations in virtual reality....

• New Tool Taps Neural Net and Fuzzy Methods -- Zaptron's Smart Technology Headed for Process-Control, Factory-automation Apps
  Eletrical Engineering Times, March 2, 1998. Issue 996, Technology section

  "Sunnyvale, Calif. - Zaptron Systems Inc. (spin-off of Aptronix) has crafted a smart technology-combining neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms-that the company will use in process control, factory automation and business-data analysis products. Its first product, DataX, due out later this quarter, is a shrink-wrapped neural network capable of learning a fuzzy model, with the help of genetic algorithms operating on historical databases..."

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Press Reports on Aptronix & Fuzzy Logic Products

• Fuzzy logic system applied to wafer-inspection process --
  Inspection work turns fuzzy
  by Colin Johnson, Senior Editor
  -- Electrical Engineering Times, September 8, 1997 Issue
  Santa Clara, Calif. - Aptronix Inc. is adapting its fuzzy inference-development environment for pattern recognition tasks to pressing problems such as fault detection in semiconductors and bomb detection within luggage at international airports.
  
  Kit Employs Fuzzy Logic for Smart Web Searches
  by Colin Johnson, Senior Editor
  -- Electrical Engineering Times, March 31, 1997 Issue
  Santa Clara, Calif. - Aptronix Inc. unveiled its fuzzy-logic-based Internet technology here along with its first application: an engine for generating fuzzy agents. The Fide (Fuzzy Inference Development Environment) Internet Kit enables engineers to employ fuzzy logic when building applications for the Internet.

• "Manufacturing Embraces the Internet - Slowly," (Special Report)
  by Rick Cook

• "Java Applets Look for Control - Aptronix system uses a
  graphical interface to design fuzzy rules for smart applets,"
  by Colin Johnson, Senior Editor
  -- Electrical Engineering Times, December 9, 1996 Issue, Page 56.
  Santa Clara, Calif. - Fuzzy-logic pioneer Aptronix Inc. has refocused its engineering-software-development environment on what's called Java-based "smart applets" with the introduction of its Java Runtime Controller. With JRC, Aptronix said, engineers can manage fuzzy-control programs from Web pages that serve as the user interface for controlling complex industrial processes.

• "Fuzzy Logic: A new challenge is threatening to dethrone traditional control techniques as the methods of choices."
  by Byron Miller
  -- Electronics Now, May 1996, page 58.

• "Intelligent Dishwasher Outsmarts Dirt:
  Senors and fuzzy logic yiedl shorter, more efficient wash cycles"
  by Andrea Baker, Associate Editor,
  Design News, May, 1994

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