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Artificial intelligence industry observer gives its days of glory an official record

For Harvey Newquist, the artifical intelligence era officially ended in January 1993 when computer maker Symbolics Inc., now in Burlington, filed for bankruptcy protection. It was a hard landing for an industry that just 10 years previously had been flying high on the dollars of venture capitalists and the promises of technology.

Back in the glory years, there had been enough money for Russell Noftsker, Symbolics' cofounder and president, to put Howard Canon -- just out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- on a plane to California with the agreement that if Canon got three of the company's first computers ready for shipment, Noftsker would buy him the Porsche of his …

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