No amount of expert advice is useful. He is skilled with most weapons and an expert with throwing weapons. Research on expert systems was also active in France. Professor Natesan Srinivasan joined the inquiry as the main technical expert. There is no onboard technical expert and third pair of eyes. He was later quoted as describing his training as that of an "efficiency expert". Maxwell is a leadership expert, speaker, and author. Skills are divided into four levels&colon; Basic, Advanced, Expert, and Ultimate. Also present is Zoltan Karpathy, a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. He was a keen and expert marksman. It was immediately recognized as expert and admirable. Diagnostic expert systems frequently employ abduction. Critics have been generally positive regarding the character's role as an IT expert. Bill Nye was the show's "technical expert". Its use of expert opinion followed precedent.