A method of representing the associations between data elements using probability. Markov Models are used extensively in speech recognition. See the Generation5 Essay . Marvin Minsky is generally considered to be one of the founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence. See the Generation5 Interview .
Nanotechnology is a process of manufactuering materials on the molecular and atomic levels.
A good introduction to nanotechnology can be found here . A field of artificial intelligence that deals with languages and the creating of sentences, paragraphs and pieces of text. NLP looks at how humans build and create sentences, along with the semantics and syntactics of language. A currently fictious device that will aid the brain's sensory, memory or intellectual ability. An ANN is meant to simulate a biological brain by using distributed computing and learning algorithms.