07-10-2003, 05:03 AM
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The software that hunts low fares
http://www.msnbc.com/news/930936.asp?0si=-&cp1=1
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America West’s online site, like most of its rivals, used to ask prospective passengers when they wanted to travel and return a price quote accordingly.
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The method works fine if you have a specific flight and you want a price, but it was fundamentally designed to retrieve information, not analyze it
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America West turned to ITA and Wertheimer, who had studied artificial intelligence at MIT, to set up its new system. Though the site already had a low-fare finder, its new version offered shoppers dozens more options and found new fare combinations that hadn’t previously turned up.
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