Artificial intelligence and intelligent systems research in Chile

Abstract

Worldwide Artificial Intelligence research has witnessed fast and growing advances. These contributions mainly came from first-world nations as other research priorities and needs have been undertaken by less-developed countries. Nevertheless some Latin American countries have put significant efforts into AI research so as to advance in the state-of-the-art at international levels. This paper describes the history, evolution and main contributions of Chile to AI research and applications. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.