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From: demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David E Demers)
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Subject: Re: AI texts
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In article <1516@gumby.cs.wisc.edu> g-zeiden@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Matthew Zeidenberg) writes:
>I'm teaching intro AI here at the Univ. of Wisconin this coming
>summer, and I'm trying to choose a text. I'm considering Rich,
>Winston, Nilsson and Tanimoto's books. Any opinions?
>
For an intro course, the above are all good; also, Charniak &
McDermott.  I suppose it depends on whether you want a broad 
overview, and on what YOU think AI really is.  Some LISP should
be a prerequisite, PROLOG may be helpful.  And of course the new
hot topic is connectionism/neural networks.  (I am still a grad
student, & speak from the point of view of having studied rather
than taught...)

Dave DeMers    UCSD