SvennoJ on 04 August 2011
I went to the university of Amsterdam and took artificial intelligence about 18 years ago. It was pretty much a joke back then as it probably still is. But I learned some decent programming skills and actually ended up using the path finding courses while working on gps navigation systems.
They hoped the sum would be greater then the parts but it never came together. It consisted of separate courses of mathematics, logic, psychology, language and informatics. The cognitive science part, neural networks and natural language parsing were the most interesting. Genetic algorithms were cool too and playing tron networked on a bunch of apple macintosh computers.
Good old times with the usenet oracle, irc chat rooms and a text only imdb.
