Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aipna!edai!cam From: cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.edai 031 667 1011 x2550) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Need a book Message-ID: <378@edai.ed.ac.uk> Date: 19 May 89 17:36:58 GMT References: <1468@dsacg1.UUCP> <6440@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Reply-To: cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) Organization: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Lines: 30 In article <6440@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rose@beowulf.UCSD.EDU (Dan Rose) writes: }In article <1468@dsacg1.UUCP> ntm1169@dsacg1.UUCP (Mott Given) writes: }>From article , by }>wjones@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Wendell E Jones): }>> I am looking for a good ai book. I can be ten years or 2 weeks [Several recommendations for books on Expert Systems omitted.] }As the range of topics discussed in this newsgroup should indicate, }Expert Systems is *not* all there is to AI! In fact, it's just one }small piece. Rather than argue about this, I'll just indicate how }much of some popular AI textbooks have to do with expert systems: } }Handbook of AI (Barr & Feigenbaum): 2 out of 15 sections. }AI (Rich): 1 out of 13 chapters. }Intro to AI: (Charniak & McDermott): 1 out of 11 chapters. }AI (Winston): 1 out of 9 chapters. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man, ( Boden), Harvester Press: a few pages out of 500. Artificial Intelligence: Tools, Techniques, and Applications, (O'Shea and Eisenstadt), Harper & Row: 1 out of 15 chapters. One could argue that one of the reasons Expert Systems are being given as _much_ prominence as this is because their high media and commercial profile demands it in popular undergrad textbooks :-)-- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.edai 031 667 1011 x2550 Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK