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From: morus@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas M.)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI texts
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Date: 28 Apr 88 02:27:05 GMT
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In article <4894@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> demers@beowulf.UUCP (David E Demers) writes:
>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?
>>
From a didactical point of view you might consider the TIME-LIFE book
"Artificial intelligence" which visualizes some of the main topics like
rule-based reasoning, learning, knowledge representations, pattern recogni-
tion. Good source for overhead-transparencies.
Some anekdotes about the "authorities" in the field too.
For the same reason - good visualization - have look at HARMON/KING
"Expert Systems" (John Wiley & Sons 1985).
For a critical look upon the ideas of KI there is DREYFUS/DREYFUS
"Mind over Machine" (The Free Press 1986). 

-- Thomas Muhr

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