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1.5.3 The Modern Period<br />

The modern period starts from the latter half of the 1970s to the present day.<br />

This period is devoted to solving more complex problems of practical<br />

interest. The MYCIN experiments of Stanford University [4], [39] resulted in<br />

an expert system that could diagnose <strong>and</strong> prescribe medicines for infectious<br />

bacteriological diseases. The MECHO system for solving problems of<br />

Newtonian machines is another expert system that deals with real life<br />

problems. It should be added that besides solving real world problems,<br />

researchers are also engaged in theoretical research on AI including heuristic<br />

search, uncertainty modeling <strong>and</strong> non-monotonic <strong>and</strong> spatio-temporal<br />

reasoning. To summarize, this period includes research on both theories <strong>and</strong><br />

practical aspects of AI.<br />

1.6 Characteristic Requirements for the<br />

Realization of the Intelligent Systems<br />

The AI problems, irrespective of their type, possess a few common<br />

characteristics. Identification of these characteristics is required for designing a<br />

common framework for h<strong>and</strong>ling AI problems. Some of the well-known<br />

characteristic requirements for the realization of the intelligent systems are<br />

listed below.<br />

1.6.1 Symbolic <strong>and</strong> Numeric Computation<br />

on Common Platform<br />

It is clear from the previous sections that a general purpose intelligent<br />

machine should be able to perform both symbolic <strong>and</strong> numeric computations<br />

on a common platform. Symbolic computing is required in automated<br />

reasoning, recognition, matching <strong>and</strong> inductive as well as analogy-based<br />

learning. The need for symbolic computing was felt since the birth of AI in<br />

the early fifties. Recently, the connectionist approach for building intelligent<br />

machines with structured models like artificial neural nets is receiving more<br />

attention. The ANN based models have successfully been applied in learning,<br />

recognition, optimization <strong>and</strong> also in reasoning problems [29] involved in<br />

expert systems. The ANNs have outperformed the classical approach in many<br />

applications, including optimization <strong>and</strong> pattern classification problems.<br />

Many AI researchers, thus, are of the opinion that in the long run

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