John Durkin

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This article is about the professor. For the Senator from New Hampshire, see John A. Durkin.

Portrait taken from the personal homepage of John Durkin.

John Durkin is a professor at the University of Akron. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering, but for the past twenty years, he has been committed to the advancement of expert system technology. In particular, to its application in solving real-world problems. He founded a company Intelligent Computer Systems Inc., which provides consulting services to world-wide organizations in the areas of expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, case-based reasoning and artificial intelligence. At the University of Akron, Dr. Durkin offers a series of intelligent computing courses and is the director of the Intelligent Machines Laboratory.

[edit] Courses Taught

Expert Systems Design and Development
Knowledge Engineering
Fuzzy Logic Expert System Design
Frame-Based Expert System Design

and also :

Circuit Analysis
Circuits Laboratory

[edit] Publication

Expert Systems: Design and Development : This book supports several expert system courses like Introduction to Expert Systems, Knowledge Engineering, Fuzzy Logic Expert System Design, and Frame-Based Expert System Design. This book has been recognized as one of the leading texts for instructing expert system technology. Despite the educational purpose, coverage of special software engineering concepts for design and development of expert systems, also brings this text to the field of applied methods in project management and development life cycle of such systems.
Expert Systems: Catalog of Applications : This book provides a description of over 2500 developed expert systems cataloged into various application areas (e.g., Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, etc.). The book is of particular value to the practicing Knowledge Engineer and to a graduate student working in the field.