Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is a branch of computer science that strives to impart to computers the ability to understand language, solve “reasoning” problems and to learn ¾ in sum, to emulate the learning and problem solving methods of (human) experts
AI uses symbolic methods, i.e.; inductive reasoning, rules, graphs, and other data structures, rather than (numerical) algorithms
Expert systems is the most widely applied area of the field of AI