One of the subjects that the IT National Diploma covers is Expert Systems.

Expert systems use human knowledge to solve problems that usually would require human intelligence. The system follows a set of pacific rules and with the input of the human knowledge and data with the click of a button the system can automatically work out the problem. For the data input a professional for example a doctor must be used, books contain knowledge but it takes a human to interpret the knowledge before it can be used.

This subject also looks at Neural Networks

Neural networks are brain-like computers which consist of many processors working along side each other. All the different segments are connected by a network so all the results from each segment can be combined together. This allows the computer to link facts together to form a suitable conclusion and even, use the data to form patterns which can explain or reason an outcome.

Some examples of work done for this course is shown on the right:

Robot Timeline- here we researched into popular robots and new invetions from the last couple of years.

Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems- produced a presentation explaining about the two subjcets, for the aim of deciding if artificial intelligence is the future and how effect the people around us.

IRobot presentation- Here we were given the option to pick a film that used robots as a theme, i chose IRobot. I looked at the way that robots are compared to humans.