While the terminus "artificia...

While the terminus "artificial intelligence" might aptly be applied to many politicians and their election-year policies, an vendors have applied it with les precision to their computer tools for the AEC industry. further researchers are making headway into a working mould for an "expert system" that uses computer-based design advisors in an application that might better be dubed "applied" rather than "artificial" intelligence.

Since 1986 an interdisciplinary research team in the academy of Architecture and Design at California Polytechnic