Research in Progress

AI MAGAZINE Fall 1984 79 and to provide an intelligent interface. The relevant areas of AI being researched for support of this area include natural language understanding, voice recognition, expert systems, and knowledge representation. This application should be particularly useful in a classroom where the student uses his knowledge to determine his choice of options and verifies his selection with the system. The machine is a colleague of the user. In this application, the user may be an engineer in industry and an expert in his own field, but may have a limited knowledge of optimization.