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Thursday, May 30, 2002
http://www.techreview.com/offthewire/3001_2852002_2.asp Artificial Intelligence.....the Wave of the Future Kate Wisniewski http://www.highwired.com/Referral/1,1876,348,00.html As science continues to advance rapidly, the possibilities for artificial intelligence expand. The term "artificial intelligence" was first used by MIT's John McCarthy back in 1956, and the concept has existed for many years. However, it seems people are only now realizing the wide range of fields in which A.I. could be employed. Interest in artificial intelligence came about sometime after World War II, and since then, man's fascination with the idea has never waned. The first A.I. machines ran on fairly simple programs used for basic operations such as calculating. As technology evolved, A.I. became more important for data storage and retrieval, as used in today's Internet search engines....
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