(1) Artwork. See
electronic art,
software art,
ASCII art,
Internet art and
microchip art.
(2) A compressed image format from AOL. AOL browsers default to compressing JPEGs and GIFs into the .ART format to speed up graphics downloading. Internet Explorer can also render ART files.
(3) (
Automated
Reasoning
Tool) A general expert system written in LISP that is used with various AI techniques for different applications.
(4) (
Adaptive
Reasoning
Theory) A theory about how the human brain processes new information without forgetting the past. Developed by Stephen Grossberg and Gail Carpenter in the 1980s, ART explains the stability-plasticity conundrum, whereby people absorb new information without losing what they already know. ART has been used to describe certain neural networks.