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From: munson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson)
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Subject: Re: A good beginning text for AI
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The text by Elaine Rich (called Artificial Intelligence (?)) is a
decent basic introduction to AI.  It is not very rigorous, though.

A better text, but much harder to plow through, is by Charniak and
McDermott.  I think it is called An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
It deals with topics that are only a few years old and shows the data
structures used in great detail.

For LISP, both of these texts have brief introductions, but I recommend
either of Wilensky's books.  The most recent is on Common LISP, which is
the emerging standard. The book is called Common LISPcraft.

Ethan Munson
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