Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of computer science that is concerned with the representation, study, and automation of knowledge and intelligent reasoning. One of the main goals of AI is to create computer programs that exhibit "intelligent" behavior. The AI field is a vast one, encompassing a variety of problem domains, methodologies, and applications. Some subjects that currently fall under the rubric of AI include automated planning, robotics, computer vision, natural language understanding, speech and pattern recognition, neural networks, machine learning, rule-based expert systems, knowledge representation, and automatic theorem proving.

The birth of AI is said to have occurred at a conference held at Dartmouth college in the summer of 1956. The conference was organized by Marvin Minsky, who later helped found the AI laboratory at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and who is currently at the MIT Media Laboratory. Also present was John McCarthy...