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From: Ed Komarek <ekomarek@mail.caironet.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:56:11 -0800 |
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Re: http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/dec/d27-001.shtml
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 19:58:43 -0500
ACC's Response to letter posted to UFOmind mailing list that I
forwarded on to ACC for possible comment. Ed Komarek (ORTK)
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Subject: RE: Thought you guys would be interested in this
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 98 23:32:11 UT
From: "American Computer Company" <nicolai_tesla@classic.msn.com>
To: ekomarek@mail.caironet.com, eotl@west.net, authority@webtv.com
CC: lkj@front.net
To explain your findings, to whomsoever thought to put the
MISINFORMATION about ACC in the below letter and in the database so
indicated (and you have our permission to publicize this reply):
a) The business arrangements between American Computer Company and the
thousands of customers to whom it provides native virtually hosted
world wide websites, and to whom it provides software, hardware or
developmental activities are, frankly, no one else's business. Were
we to provide you with services, would you want us explaining your
private business to outsiders? ACC are a privately held company and
not subject to any form of public disclosure about those arrangements,
either. Attempting to draw any conclusion about what's going on from
the limited records of the INTERNIC's "whois" database, would be a
mistake. All it represents is what was filled in on an INTERNIC Form
when a particular website was first created. That is usually done to
the convenience of the Website administrator, traditionally.
b) For the record: 6 Commerce Drive is NOT the main facility of
American Computer Company or its subsidiaries. Again, our arrangement
with Cali Realty Corporation is none of your or anyone's business.
Would you expect a Landlord to publicize any arrangements between him
and his tenants, without first obtaining their permission? Our
accomodation arrangements are no one else's business. Our business
locations are our business, too. I find it surprising that people
investigate us, to find out about us, when, in fact, we are
investigating the Roswell Allegations that appear on our website.
That's interesting, too. I am interested in finding out who said
persons are.
c) For the record: "Kasparov.com" IS (during 1995/1996) Garry
Kasparov's ORIGINAL world wide website. ACC does not write for that
website, it is operated by a customer, and any claims made within it,
are the webmaster's there. Whoever suggested it was a "name grab" is
incorrect, and should immediately correct their records, it AGAIN: IS
Garry Kasparov's ORIGINAL world wide website, Mr. Kasparov, after
causing it to be organized, detached from it 9 months later, to enter
into a conflicting contract of some kind, reportedly with IBM
Corporation, who "GRABBED" the name "club-kasparov.com" - which we
have heard was NOT SUCCESSFUL and has been discontinued. Intel
Corporation maintained a "World Championship" website during the
Kasparov v. Anand Championship in 1995, but that was not truly a
"kasparov" website. "Kasporov.com" is legitimate, and the client who
operates it, is too. Again, our relationships with our customers are
really none of your business, however this client agreed to allow us
to release the foregoing information.
He met with Garry Kasparov at the time of the very first Penn "Deep
Blue" Match two years ago approximately, and worked with Kasparov's
assistant, Michael Khodarkovsky, during that period. Time marches on.
The reason it was not dissolved stems from the "Garry Kasparov:
International Chess School's" failure to pay invoices rendered it from
when it ORDERED the website, so the site was leased off to a new user
(and is available for re-lease now) to pay off its startup costs. We
are not aware if Garry Kasparov knew that his school failed to pay for
the site as he is a "chess player" first. The name "kasparov" on the
domain, is held in the possession of an attorney and is NOT the
property of Garry Kasparov, as he has declined to buyout the name and
instead opted to replace his agreement with our client, with one made
with our direct competitor: IBM Corporation, who over a year after
"kasparov.com" came into existence, created the highly UNSUCCESSFUL
(reportedly) "club-kasparov" domain.
In our opinion, Garry made all the wrong choices and would have been
better with an Independent site and not playing Deep Blue in the
second match which he lost. 20-20 hindsite, but interestingly, Jack
Shulman predicted for two months before the 2nd Deep Blue match, that
Kasparov WOULD lose it - bear in mind that Jack Shulman knows
Kasparov, and designed some of the components and software which IBM
used for the PP6000/SP2 known as Deep Blue, so he had reason to be
able to judge correctly. Jack had also accurately predicted correctly
Kasparov's win in the original match a year earlier at the ACM 50th
Anniversary. Shulman was almost thrown into jail for 'mistatements by
an official of a publicly traded company' by a very narrow minded
attorney working for the New York Attorney General, when, in 1984,
Jack stated publicly that machines like Deep Blue - could in some very
deep "artificial intelligence" applications - out-think a man - or
think 'like' a man. In the last Deep Blue match, IBM reached a
performance level that was about the same as the machine-design Jack
made those statements about in 1984, for the first time. Jack had
predicted machines the speed of Deep Blue 1997 - and those much much
faster, would be able to be used for applications where there
intelligence might equal or exceed a man's, so long as their software
was correctly written. We at ACC feel that Kasparov's loss and Jack's
prediction, were proof: Shulman's was right ALL ALONG.
Under US law, a personal name is not deemed open to "trademark
protection". The domain name and site have been "for sale" on the
market for about two months at a specific price but it has not been
widely advertised. It is extremely popular and bears an archive of
the original prototype drawings used to create the original site for
Kasparov. The supercomputer components which Jack Shulman designed,
in 1983, used by IBM in the present Deep Blue (which has been retired)
were the subject of a landmark 8 year long Federal Racketeering
lawsuit he and others FILED AGAINST certain companies working for IBM
who stole design documents by means of a break-in at Jack's home and
office in 1985. That lawsuit put ALL the companies working for IBM on
it, into Bankruptcy (mainly to flee the lawsuit, which was quite
substantial), and has delayed IBM's ability to use the stolen
merchandise in its mainstream Computer product line. The architecture
of the central core of Deep Blue (a 256-Maisey array supporting 32
PowerPC Processors) is about 10 years or so behind some of the
parallel processor technologies used today by American, in scope, but
well ahead of the rest of the Supercomputer Industry. Cross licensing
has resulted in INTEL using some of that design in its Department of
Energy system at Sandia National Laboratories, in New Mexico. However,
their system is limited to 7350 Pentium Pros, and ours is a much
larger scalable design, supporting, in theory, as many as 1,000,000
Pentium type CPUs, plus a lot of other enhancements which make it
faster and more potent for applications like AI - known as "Artificial
Reasoning Accelerators" - components which perform some of the work
faster than conventional RISC CPU Chips. We have built and sold TWO
Valkyries, and are working on a third at this time. Our chess
challenge to IBM to play Deep Blue against a Valkyrie, went
unresponded to, until Deep Blue retired from Chess. Given a 32CPU
Deep Blue, versus a 16,000 CPU Valkyrie, and the same kinds of Chess
software, which one do you think would win in a given unit of time,
most likely?
d) For the Record: We do not formally publically advertise, aside from
our website. Our thousands of customers come from other customers who
have used our products and KNOW the difference. Do you find that
"method" objectionable? We also keep the PC section and the Roswell
section separate from each other on our Website, logically, because we
are disinterested in selling PC's by means of the Roswell
Investigation. As a matter of fact, we want to SOLVE the ROSWELL
MYSTERY ACCURATELY for all time, then make a TON OF MONEY on the
lecture circuit (kidding: to our knowledge, there really is no "paid"
lecture circuit for this story).
Would the person who said our "Advertising methods" are questionable,
please stand up so we can ask him to stop slandering us?
It's amazing how many wrong conclusions people are drawing. You'd
think they work for AT&T or IBM and are drawing them deliberately.
Maybe not.
Very truly yours,
--UFO NEWSWATCH
American Computer Company
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Subject: American Computer Company and its many domains
From: Lloyd Jacobs <lkj@front.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:43:58 -0800
[Regarding recent Roswell-related claims by "American Computer
Company" and its president Jack Shulman.]
I'd bet that ACC is not much more than a boiler room operation. For
one thing they share a leased suite (not to mention the same phone #
and email) with other companies and organizations, all operated by
Shulman and friends.
I looked up these domain names on a whois server.
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compamerica.com,
accpc.com (American Computer Company)
Address: 6 Commerce Drive, suite 2000, Cranford, New Jersey
Note: ACC (ie. ACC Corporation) is also the name of a much
larger telecommunications corporation.
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acsa2000.com (American Computer Scientists Association)
Address: 6 Commerce Drive, suite 2000, Cranford, New Jersey
Note: ACSA is also the acronym for the
Association of California School Administrators
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ticorporation.com (Technology International Corporation)
Address: 6 Commerce Drive, second floor, Cranford, New Jersey
Note: Similar acronym to Texas Instruments (TI)
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kasparov.com (American Computer Company)
Address: same as above
Note: a blatant domain name grab of Garry Kasparov, they
even admit to a dispute with Kasparov and Robert Rice of
the Professional Chess Association with a veiled disclaimer
on the top page (www.kasparov.com). Most of the claims
they make about their "supercomputer" are using a testimonial
by an "investigative journalist".
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Try this link to view the leased building of ACC:
http://www.mack-cali.com:80/properties/6commerce/index.html
Having said all this, it's my opinion their small businesses are
legitimate and legal but their advertizing methods and the
claims they make are certainly, highly questionable.
Lloyd
Lloyd Jacobs "The sea was angry that day my
lkj@front.net friends, like an old man trying
ab922@torfree.net to send back soup in a deli."
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MODERATOR NOTE: ACC responds on the kasperov.com domain, but
not about the others, which are suspiciously close to the names
of large corporations. Even their email address "nicolai_tesla"
is someone else's name.
I would guess that the whole worldwide ACC empire is one man
with a dozen email accounts, a compulsion for fakery and an
enormous need to impress others. --GC
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