An executive glance at MINERVA for web-hosted services:

"MINERVA capabilities
closely track those that are
being studied and acquired by
major Banks and Insurance firms
here in the US"
- Jim Heldman, Berkeley

The same in geek-speak: MINERVA offers the high level API of ISO/IEC13211-1 Prolog to produce applets for execution in Java-enabled Internet Browsers and applications for execution in general purpose computers supporting Java.

MINERVA Example: Brightest Co. Brightest, independent financial consulting company in Tokyo, uses MINERVA to deliver individual consulting on personal life insurance policies on the Internet. Shown here are some examples of the consumer user interface. Interactive input dialog Help Dialog for timely information Spreadsheet for visual feedback Spreadsheet for interactive refinement Rule and formula based calculation Interactive Input Dialog Input screens with guidance for input items. Used are menus, radio buttons, text as needed. zoom picture top Help Dialog for timely information Help is only displayed upon user request or when an error or implausibility was found in the data given by the user. zoom picture top Spreadsheet for visual feedback The spreadsheet table and graphics visualizes input data and computed results; here expected education cost. zoom picture top Spreadsheet for interactive refinement The user can overrride individual input values, re-calculation and display is done automatically. zoom picture top Rule and Formula based Calculation The dark green line shows public pension. Pension calculation is based on the regulations of the Government of Japan, empirical economic factors, and on the individual data of the customer. zoom picture top (c) IF Computer Japan. Screens of 2001/01/25. Copyrights of Brightest acknowledged.

Here is a quick review of Web technologies in use today:

Deliver Data

• Static files (data) delivered with http from the server and viewed with the clients browser.
• No or little interactivity.
• Mainly useful for publishing.

Deliver Generated Data

• files generated on the fly at the server and viewed with the client browser.
• Computation load is on the server.
• Interactivity is poor. Programming model unwieldy.
• Useful for simple business situations only.

Deliver the Program

• Programming in a proven very high level language.
• Execution is local in the client browser.
• Interaction is immediate.
• Computation load is on the client.

Cooperative Computing

• can combine client side processing and server side processing
• including secure communication via sockets,
• e.g. to negotiate customer requests with server side product data.

Real Cooperative Computing

• For more than a few users, server side processing alone is insufficient.
• Client side privacy protection: client data need not go to the server.
• Server side privacy protection: MINERVA programs are opaque binaries.

MINERVA is State Of The Art:

• Web culture: world standards
• exciting: Web + high level programming
• business rules, pattern matching, problem solving
  in ISO Standard notation
• available now: www.ifcomputer.com/MINERVA

MINERVA today for:

• Residential Housing Design
• Drug Consulting
• Fashion Advice
• Electronic Payment Systems
• Help Desk Systems
• Government Services

MINERVA is the goddess of wisdom of the roman/greek mythology.