Current neural network technology is the most progressive of the artificial intelligence 
            
 systems today. Applications of neural networks have made the transition from laboratory 
            
 curiosities to large, successful commercial applications. To enhance the security of automated 
            
 financial transactions, current technologies in both speech recognition and handwriting 
            
 recognition are likely ready for mass integration into financial institutions.
            
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     The purpose of this study is to determine additional areas where artificial intelligence 
            
     technology may be applied for positive identifications of individuals during financial 
            
     transactions, such as automated banking transactions, telephone transactions , and home 
            
     banking activities. This study focuses on academic research in neural network technology . 
            
     This study was funded by the Banking Commission in its effort to deter fraud.
            
     Recently, the thrust of studies into practical applications for artificial intelligence 
            
     have focused on exploiting the expectations of both expert systems and neural network 
            
     computers. In the artificial intelligence community, the proponents of expert systems 
            
     have approached the challenge of simulating intelligence differently than their counterpart 
            
     proponents of neural networks. Expert systems contain the coded knowledge of a human expert 
            
     in a field; this knowledge takes the form of "if-then" rules. The problem with this approach 
            
     is that people don’t always know why they do what they do. And even when they can express this 
            
     knowledge, it is not easily translated into usable computer code. Also, expert systems are 
            
     usually bound by a rigid set of inflexible rules which do not change with experience gained 
            
     by trail and error. In contrast, neural networks are designed around the structure of a 
            
     biological model of the br...