1. Application Areas of Artificial Intelligence(AI) Punjab University College of Information Technology, Lahore.

2. Some Application Areas of AI o Game Playing o Computer Vision o Expert Systems o Biology and Medicine o Machine Learning o Natural Language Understanding o Scheduling and Planning

3. Game Playing oIBM’s Deep Blue oFirst AI to beat a human chess champion: Garry Kasparov, 1997 oBlondie24 oMachine learning program that won a checker’s tournament oCommercial game AI oIncrease in more sophisticated AI work for “non-academic” games

4. Computer Vision oHandwriting recognition oUS Postal Service automatically sorts mail oFace recognition oGovernment / bank security systems oAutonomous Land Vehicle oCMU's ALVINN autonomously drove a van from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, averaging 63 mph day and night, in all weather conditions

5. Expert Systems o Rely on obtaining the knowledge of human experts and programming that knowledge into a system oDiagnostic systems oSystem configuration oFinancial decision making oClassification systems

6. Biology & Medicine oDiagnosis systems oSpecialists often use statistical AI tools to diagnose a patient has a disease based on his/her symptoms oGenome analysis software o Now that the human and other genomes are complete, AI is used to identify new genes, infer biochemical pathways, and compare genomes of multiple species

7. Machine Learning o Automated Mathematician, designed to discover mathematical laws. o Meta-DENDRAL learns rules for interpreting mass spectroscopic data. o Connectionist perspective: learning in neural networks.

8. Natural Language Understanding ► Text Understanding ► Speech Understanding

9. Natural Language Understanding oMachine translation oAltavista’s Babelfish server oCatepillar's Truck manuals translated into 20 languages oInformation retrieval oGoogle search engine oText classification and organization oGoogle news, SPAM filtering (junk: email) oDocument summarization oColumbia University’s Newsblaster Text Understanding

10. Natural Language Understanding oAirline reservation systems oPEGASUS allows users to obtain flight info and make reservations by speaking over the phone oAutomatic transcription oMonitor language and content for live radio and television oAssist in the transcribing of closed-captioned television programs oMore oElectronics and manufacturing inspection, photo- interpretation, baggage inspection, reverse engineering to automatically construct a 3D geometric model Speech Understanding

11. Scheduling and Planning oTrip Itineraries oEngines such as MapQuest use AI to propose driving directions from one location to another oDynamic Analysis and Replanning Tool oUsed during the 1991 Persian Gulf crisis to assist in managing military resources (over 50,000 people, vehicles, and cargo shipments) oAirline flight scheduling oIf flights are delayed or re-routed, AI planners are used to figure the best way to re-schedule departures and arrivals o Spacecraft assembly planning  European Space Agency planning and scheduling of spacecraft assembly, integration and verification