Artificial Intelligence

1. A technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow
5. A question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language
9. A hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds
11. A logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics
15. A collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work
16. The discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data
17. An approach in the fields of cognitive science, that hopes to explain mental phenomena using artificial neural networks

2. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding
3. A genetic operator used to maintain genetic diversity from one generation of a population of genetic algorithm chromosomes to the next
4. An unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems
6. A basic unit of a data structure, such as a linked list or tree data structure
7. A computer program that plays the board game go
8. An interdisciplinary branch of science and engineering that includes mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, computer science, and others
9. The process by which computer systems manage their own operation without human intervention
10. A computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods
12. A genetic operator used to combine the genetic information of two parents to generate new offspring
13. In logic, quantification specifies the quantity of specimens in the domain of discourse that satisfy an open formula
14. The plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points