old studies in artificial intelligence and expert systems

I started studying “artificial intelligence” and “expert systems” back in early uni days, 1988-1991 during science?* / electrical engineering? / information technology* courses. I found an old uni article on AI / expert systems that I’d written, even mentions Marvin Minsky and his agent-based intelligence. Typed on dot matrix printer paper no less / early undergrad notes, be kind. As well as photocopies of articles from then whilst unpacking old storage boxes. This was before there was the “Internet” / “World Wide Web” that we have today, so research meant going to the uni library and searching journals, popular tech magazines, books, if they had any current enough that included new tech. At the time I was also working full-time, not in this field directly so abandoned it/moved in another direction. Have kept an eye on things over the years, but it’s nice/fun to catch up again now, to the new tech. Full circle so to speak. Have a few ideas for projects / art inquiries also, which I must actually start!

I’m planning to do two more machine learning classes via IATD — I’ve done some already on the more data science / data analysis type of machine learning. I really want to learn more about computer vision. IATD partner with some of the universities, Tafe and large corporates so we often are taught by PhD students/experts at a fraction of the price of uni, plus I like that they’re very hands on -> theory + coding. Coming up in Feb 2026 I’m taking the NLP class, then will take the deep learning class after this (having then finally met all the pre-requisites)

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* not all uni courses completed