Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based Systems: Origins, Methods and Opportunities for NDE

摘要

The title of my paper covers a lot of territory, so my remarks will tend to be broad rather than deep. Some of the topics I will cover are: What is AI?; A brief history of AI; What is Knowledge Engineering?; What are Expert Systems?; Why should you care?; Examples of Expert Systems; Opportunities for NDE; Selecting appropriate problems; Criticisms of Expert Systems; Looking ahead.