Artificial Intelligence, in a nutshell, is an attempt to "teach" a computer system the rules which a human uses to perform a task, and thereafter expect the computer to do the task.

My major effort in this domain, to date, has been to develop the algorithms to allow INTEL-based PCs to conjugate Latin verbs, and decline Latin nouns.   The end result of this research has been a set of Drill routines.

Students can bring a diskette with the Latin words of their choice.   (Two cases and the gender for nouns - the principle parts for verbs.   These should be the only forms I need to produce all forms of the nouns/verbs.   And therefore, these are the only forms that the Drill routines need.)   The Latin Drill Routines also include an ability to demonstrate - to actually show the steps taken to produce the forms.   During the 1990's, these Latin Drill Routines were available for student use in some of the IUP computer labs.

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