Re: AI, security, just wondering.

[smize@news.imagin.net (Samuel Mize)]

In article <36484B8C.84EEC61D@interact.net.au>,
Dizzy Casablanca  <Dizzy@interact.net.au> wrote:
>  Hello,

Hi!

>  I am wondering whether Ada has any AI applications at all ?  I realise
>that Ada is employed in various embedded scenarios, however - I was
>curious as to whether the language may be employed in some respect with
>AI concepts where autonomous embedded systems are required.

I know that there used to be an annual conference about AI and Ada,
called Aida[1].  I haven't tracked the field for some years.

>  Is Ada not a language which supports AI ?

Not directly.  They're all Turing machines, of course -- any
algorithm can be implemented in any language -- but AI tends to
study things like logic programming, self-adapting programs and
neural networks, which are clumsy to express in a procedural
language.

You'll probably hear that people are doing AI work in C.  Most are
not.  They're doing tool-smithing in C.  The people doing AI work
are those USING the tools built in C.  It's like saying that the
guy who sharpens scalpels is working in the field of brain surgery.

I dunno about your Java/security question.

Sam Mize

[1] It was at an eastern USA University, I think George Mason University.

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