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1. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig | |
Hardcover: 1152
Pages
(2009-12-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description The long-anticipated revision of this #1 selling book offers the most comprehensive, state of the art introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence for modern applications. Intelligent Agents. Solving Problems by Searching. Informed Search Methods. Game Playing. Agents that Reason Logically. First-order Logic. Building a Knowledge Base. Inference in First-Order Logic. Logical Reasoning Systems. Practical Planning. Planning and Acting. Uncertainty. Probabilistic Reasoning Systems. Making Simple Decisions. Making Complex Decisions. Learning from Observations. Learning with Neural Networks. Reinforcement Learning. Knowledge in Learning. Agents that Communicate. Practical Communication in English. Perception. Robotics. For computer professionals, linguists, and cognitive scientists interested in artificial intelligence. Customer Reviews (16)
Good Book
Exactly as expected
Well written
Finally, a text book that you can read
Poor learning tool |
2. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig | |
Hardcover: 1132
Pages
(2002-12-30)
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All theory but lacks concrete examples
I Confess, I Wikipedia did a better job explaining some of the concepts...
Could have been great, but ...
Nice introductory text on AI
cheating |
3. Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Science Made Accessible) by Scientific American | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2002-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Comprised of critically acclaimed essays by the world's leading experts on each topic in the series, these collections will become definitive texts on crucial issues of our technological times. The authoritative and prestigious reputation of Scientific American puts these books at the top of any science fan's list. Called AI by followers and practitioners, the field of Artificial Intelligence is dedicated to the proposition that human brains are nothing more than machines, albeit extremely complicated ones, whose abilities will someday be duplicated-and surpassed-by computers. This collection of essays discusses the wide spectrum of knowledge compiled on the pursuit of this elusive goal. It includes a fascinating overview of the subject by Douglas B. Lenat, the president of Cycorp, Inc., and a forward-thinking essay on "The Rise of Robots" by Hans Marvec, the principal research scientists at the robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, which conservatively estimates that by 2050, robot brains based on computers will start rivaling human intelligence. Other articles include "Here's Looking at You," which profiles a robot who learns about itself and its environment through trial and error, as well as a profile on Marvin L. Minsky, the mastermind behind Artificial Intelligence. The book-like the entire series-is targeted to intelligent readers who want to expand their understanding of complex scientific subjects and contains essays from top scientists working in the field. Like the magazine, the book encompasses a spectrum of innovation through expert-authored articles that demonstrate the convergence of science, technology, and the world economy, challenging readers with fresh, new ideas and empowering them to make smart, strategic decisions. Customer Reviews (2)
Required reading for 21st century humans!
Mind-Children and Smart Refrigerators All the authors are well-known AI experts who have put in their time at the lab bench - or computer keyboard - and are talking from hands-on experience. Every piece meets Scientific American's standard of good, clear English without `talking down' to readers. The enthusiasm and pragmatism of these scientists comes through clearly. At around 150 pages, this e-book was easy to read in one sitting, a perfect length for a domestic flight. ... Read more |
4. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig | |
Paperback: 946
Pages
(1991-10-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size.Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer. Customer Reviews (8)
Amazing book about designing programs
One of the Best
Norvig's Corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Law of Programming
An Excellent Reference on WHY to write good Lisp a) A historical study of Artificial Intelligence, with USABLE examples of code, or b) A book presenting techniques for programming in Common Lisp. As a reference about Common Lisp, it is certainly lacking, but this is no great problem when both the Common Lisp HyperSpec and Steele's book are readily available in electronic form.It provides something more important: SIGNIFICANT examples, and significant discussions on WHY you would use various Lisp idioms, and, fairly often, discussions on HOW pieces of Common Lisp are likely to be implemented.Its discussion of an implementation of the LOOP macro, for instance, provides a very different point of view than the "references" to LOOP.(Contrast too with Graham's books, which largely deprecate the use of LOOP.) From an AI perspective, it is also very good, providing WORKING SAMPLES for a whole lot of the historically significant AI problems, including Search, PLANNER, symbolic computation, and the likes. It would be interesting to see parallel works from the following sorts of perspectives: - The same sorts of AI problems solved using functional languages (e.g. - ML, Haskell), to allow contrasting the use of those more modern languages.Being more "purely functional" has merits; such languages commonly lack macros, which is something of a disadvantage. - The use of CL to grapple with some other sorts of applications, notably random access to data [e.g. - databases] and rendition of output in HTML/SGML/XML [e.g. - web server].
Not advanced, but good and vast The programming itself is rather basic, and very straightforward.In many places an advanced programmer would have avoided a global variable, unified code through the use of higher-order functions, had functions communicate through a shared local environment, created a lazy list, you name it. The author avoids most of these more advanced approaches in order to present the ideas behind the approaches without being sidetracked into programming technique issues, and that is the correct choice for this book.Even as it is, there is already the duplicity of teaching Common Lisp and teaching AI programming. That being said, the code in general is not bad at all, even though I wouldn't want my students to learn CL programming from it.The author has simply bent down to the level of, a good C programmer, and worked from there.His main intention being to teach AI programming approaches, he has spent much less time to raise the programming level of his audience. Knowing the author's level of Lisp programming, I can't wait to see a book by his hand on how to use abstraction as an organising principle in programming. ... Read more |
5. Artificial Intelligence for Games, Second Edition by Ian Millington, John Funge | |
Hardcover: 896
Pages
(2009-08-20)
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Excellent and approachable
Detailed explanations of AI algorithms, their purpose and usage |
6. The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence) by W. Danny Hillis | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(1989-02-15)
list price: US$25.00 Isbn: 0262580977 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description The Connection Machine is not atextbook and may be intimidating to beginners, but it provides awonderful picture of the kinds of issues involved in designing a newmachine. The book is well written and features a host of interestingdiscussions by Hillis on related topics (such as general philosophy ofparallel computing). Anyone interested in the subject of computerarchitecture will enjoy and profit greatly from this book. Customer Reviews (3)
Connection Machine? Count me in!
easy reading, good intro to massive multiprocessing
What do you get when you connect a zillion computers togethe |
7. Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents by Poole David L., Mackworth Alan K. | |
Hardcover: 688
Pages
(2010-04-19)
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A "neo-classical", logical approach to AI |
8. Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi | |
Hardcover: 659
Pages
(2008-09-30)
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A very cohearent covering of a large territory understandable even to a layperson |
9. Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach (Computer Science) by M. Tim Jones | |
Hardcover: 500
Pages
(2008-12-26)
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Plain simple English!
Best AI book I've seen so far |
10. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis by Nils J. Nilsson | |
Hardcover: 513
Pages
(1998-04-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researchers. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis takes the reader on a complete tour of this intriguing new world of AI. Customer Reviews (15)
Good general overview This book is written more in the context of the latter camp, than in the former. However, in-depth discussion of the Turing test is not given, and this actually is one of the main virtues of the book, although the author clearly believes that the purpose of doing research in artificial intelligence is to achieve human-level intelligence. As he remarks in the last paragraph in the book, it was written to overview the techniques that he believes are required to achieve human-level intelligence. Although he does not explicitly give the reader tests for machine intelligence that will allow progress to be measured, he devotes a small portion of the book to various ideas on just what constitutes intelligence. The book also gives a general (and sometimes very brief) overview of the algorithms used in artificial intelligence.Search heuristics, neural networks, and genetic programming are some of the topics that are covered. The influence of the "intelligent agent" paradigm, that is now taking the AI community by storm, is very apparent throughout the book. The author though does not neglect some of the topics in "good-ole-fashioned" artificial intelligence that arose decades ago and is still applicable today, especially in the field of logic programming. These topics include resolution in both the propositional and predicate calculus, and in expert systems. By far the best discussion in the book is on knowledge-based systems and evolving knowledge bases. This topic has taken on considerable importance in recent years due to the importance of data mining and business intelligence. Readers who are considering artificial intelligence as a career choice will find good motivation by reading this book. The field also is quite different than most others in that it respects a high degree of individual creativity and ingenuity, and has a high bandwidth for new ideas. Beginning with its origins in the 1950s, the field has grown by leaps and bounds, but its applications have exploded in the last five years, fueled mainly by business and financial applications. Concerned not only with achieving human-level capabilities, but also with other forms of intelligence and how they can be useful, artificial intelligence has become one of the predominant forces in the twenty-first century. One can only be excited and optimistic about its further advances.
Run Forrest Run
Not a good intro to AI
nice, but with these errors Page 52: The "high-degree function" is not a function! Page 92: In Figure 6.6, the topmost pixels that get deleted as a result of the averaging operation should actually remain there, since both their sums are 4, which is greater than the threshold, which is 3. Page 100: In Fig. 6.13, the last row of the last image contains a spurious image boundary. Page 151: In Fig. 9.8, there are two nodes with name n; the one which is higher in the figure should have the subscript 1. Page 152, item 3 in the list: There is an implicit assumption that h-hat always returns 0 for goal states. I don't think that this assumption is stated earlier in the text. Page 165: In Figure 10.1, all arrows are supposed to be pointing away from the current state. Page 246: The last paragraph mentions ".. the two interpretations for Clear and On suggested by Fig. 15.2", but aren't actually THREE interpretations suggested for On? And in the current errata list in the book's website, something is clearly wrong with item 6, since it says n_i should be replaced by n_i. All in all, a good book.
Varies between being superficial and incomprehendable The book covers all the major areas of artificial intelligence but does so in a very superficial manner. There isn't actually enough information in the book at allow to to implement some of the techniques available - it is mostly teasers. Also many of the subjects are - and even some of the subjects that I already knew about beforehand - incomprehendable and I often got more confused about a subject than before I began reading it. I very rarely give a book one star, but this one deserves it in the light of the many better books on AI. I recommend that you read "Russell and Norvig: Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach" instead. Jacob Marner, M.Sc. ... Read more |
11. Introducing Artificial Intelligence by Henry Brighton | |
Paperback: 175
Pages
(2003-07-14)
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Amazing Book!
Not a technical introduction...
An introduction of an introduction
Thought, Consciousness and Understanding (oh my!)
Yet another fascinating book in the "Introducing..." series |
12. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2007-08-16)
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Popular Web Algorithms Explained in Detail
Excellent Resource, Clear and Concise
Great sample code in Python
Bold New Writing plus best O'reilly book ever
Intuitive and motivating book |
13. Artificial Intelligence Illuminated by Ben Coppin | |
Paperback: 739
Pages
(2004-04-05)
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Great text on AI
Not Feeling Very Illuminated
Excellent and outstanding service
Disappointing
Artificial Intelligence Illuminated |
14. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2007-11-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form of carefully reasoned analysis and at other times turns to emotion. He shows how our minds progress from simple, instinctive kinds of thought to more complex forms, such as consciousness or self-awareness. And he argues that because we tend to see our thinking as fragmented, we fail to appreciate what powerful thinkers we really are. Indeed, says Minsky, if thinking can be understood as the step-by-step process that it is, then we can build machines -- artificial intelligences -- that not only can assist with our thinking by thinking as we do but have the potential to be as conscious as we are. Eloquently written, The Emotion Machine is an intriguing look into a future where more powerful artificial intelligences await. Customer Reviews (24)
Good job
A brilliant book about the mind.
Simple and brilliant framework for understanding mind.Is it strong AI done right at last?
brilliant explanation of the mind
Worth the read. |
15. Artificial Intelligence for Maximizing Content Based Image Retrieval (Premier Reference Source) by Zongmin Ma | |
Hardcover: 450
Pages
(2008-11-26)
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Editorial Review Product Description Artificial Intelligence for Maximizing Content Based Image Retrieval discusses major aspects of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) using current technologies and applications within the artificial intelligence (AI) field. Providing state-of-the-art research from leading international experts, this book offers a theoretical perspective and practical solutions for academicians, researchers, and industry practitioners. |
16. The Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson | |
Paperback: 584
Pages
(2009-10-30)
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History of a Remarkable Technology
recommended!
An engaging, accessible and definitive history of artificial intelligence
Accessible to everyone- A lucid account of how AI has become a pervasive part of our lives |
17. Artificial Intelligence: Instructor's Manual/Test Bank by Elaine Rich, K. Knight | |
Paperback: 510
Pages
(1991-10-01)
Isbn: 0070522642 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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A really bad textbook. The main problem with this book is its use of language. The book tries to explain everything in formal english. This makes the explanations extremely hard to understand without rereading it a number of times. There is no time spent in giving explanations in simpler prose or resorting to mathematical formalism wherever needed. But instead the book reads like Principia Mathematica, except that the words used are familiar English words instead of Greek symbols. Of course, a seasoned veteran of the subject can easily make sense of most of the things in the book. But the book is designed to throw off any new student of the subject. Unfortunately the book does not even work as a handy reference for a veteran. Finding stuff in the book does require a lot of reading through difficult prose. Overall this is a bad book, both has an introductory text book and as a reference book. If you are looking for an AI textbook: I would highly recommend Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russel & Norvig.
Very Crisp
Good basic introduction, but little else.
A MUST BE for the AI interested.
Great Introduction |
18. A.I. Artificial Intelligence: From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg: The Vision Behind the Film | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(2009-11-03)
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence: From Stanley Kubrick.
Great and amzing book............but
Finally...
Very well researched and in depth |
19. Artificial Intelligence and Tutoring Systems: Computational and Cognitive Approaches to the Communication of Knowledge by Etienne Wenger | |
Hardcover: 486
Pages
(1987-10)
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20. PROLOG Programming for Artificial Intelligence (International Computer Science Series) by Ivan Bratko | |
Paperback: 736
Pages
(2011-04-12)
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especially good for A.I.
Why is this the the best textbook on prolog?
Great book for learning AI with Prolog, but.... This is not a good first book on Prolog. If you are new to Prolog and Logic Programming, you should read 'Art of Prolog' first. Prolog is quite different from other languages, and you'll need some time to get it. This book doesn't give you that time: after briefly introducing the basic concepts, Bratko dives at breakneck speed into recursion and list processing. Don't get me wrong, this is a magnificent book on how to do AI with Prolog, but it shouldn't be your first Prolog book. It's an excellent second book.
An excellent introduction to Prolog and concepts in AI I recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn Prolog. I would also recommend the readers to use a Prolog system to work out the examples and exercises as s/he goes through every chapter. A DEC10 Prolog system (like SICStus Prolog) would probably be the best companion for this book.
I thought the book could be better |
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