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The authors present two real-world business cases demonstrating how ISTRA TECH applied artificial intelligence to specific projects developed for the market.
The mathematical puzzle “What is the shortest path between an ant and a drop of honey?” gets new possible solutions.
This paper investigates Java virtual threads and their efficiency in parallel programming compared to non-virtual threads.
The paper presents the basics of causal inference, which is important today for achieving more advanced artificial intelligence…
An interesting mathematical game: “What is the shortest path between an ant and a drop of honey?”, got its sequel…
The paper briefly describes the basics of mathematical logic, logic programming, Prolog language and Prolog code from the book “The Java Virtual Machine Specification”.
In the last few years, functional programming has gained a lot of popularity over imperative programming. In the paper, the author gives an overview of functional and logic programming…
The paper briefly introduces the Prolog programming language and its foundations in logical programming and mathematical logic. Prolog, along with Lisp, has been widely used in symbolic AI and remains among the top ten most commonly used languages for AI in general today.
The topic of the paper is debugging the Forms program with the author’s comparison of the use of different versions of the Forms debugger.