Let me rephrase that. Initially, there is going to be an electronics workbench, a PC for microelectronics projects, a Sun workstation, and a PC for speech synthesis and recognition projects. The lab also contains a desk and PC for the lab technicians who support all three AI laboratories. Two computers were funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. Because we don't have one, and besides, this isn't exactly an electrical engineering lab.
Artificial intelligence is the computer modeling of human thinking or of human mental abilities.
Instead of a thinking machine, a computer is a tool to help us think, or to implement the results of our thinking. See the specific projects described below. It's a computer programming methodology based on representing knowledge and reasoning logically about it. It's a tiny computer built into other equipment, such as the computer in your microwave oven, your thermostat, your car engine, and so forth. The average American home now contains 100 microcontrollers.