IF Computer proudly announces the release of MINERVA 1.3, a commercial implementation of ISO13211-1 Standard Prolog hosted in Java to deploy expert services on the internet. Executable as standalone application, internet browser applet, or embedded Java class, MINERVA now also provides the following new features:

• Comprehensive functions for parsing and text processing
• Call MINERVA with or without graphical user interface from Java executed as applet or standalone application.
• Easy naming scheme for GUI predicates
• Support for Java 1.1 style event handling
• More example programs
• Lots of improvements to the online documentation
• More tests on a wider range of platforms

Live systems for UNIX and Windows and complete documentation is available at

http://www.ifcomputer.com/MINERVA .

Support is available from minerva@ifcomputer.de (Europe), minerva@ifcomputer.co.jp (Japan), or minerva@ifcomputer.com .