"The goal is to define among all of those possibilities, what is the good one for the patient. The clinician needs to be able to manipulate the beams in an interactive simulation before actually treating the patient."

"CARMA involves several different AI techniques, including case-based, rule-based, and model-based reasoning. To implement all these techniques in C would have added considerably to the development time. And expert system shells are just too rigid to model the kind of flexibility that humans exhibit. In Allegro CL, we could write …