INTELLIGENT COMPUTING:- I do not intend here to define the ultimate meaning of intelligence but rather a starting point from which to provide an operational, useful, way to use the term. No one has yet provided a complete description, yet alone all the types of intelligences that exist. The psychologist, Howard Gardner, for example, identified up to 9 different types of intelligences that exist in the human alone. Indeed, there may occur types of intelligences that we have no way (as yet) to determine. It might prove ultimately impossible to pin down the meaning of intelligence simply because, at some level, intelligence requires creativity which, if attempted to define, contradicts the very notion of creativity! Perhaps like pornography, we know it when we see it. I will therefore stick with a very basic meaning of intelligence.
