N.J. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis T. Dean, J. Allen and Y. Aloimonos, Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice D. Poole, A. Mackworth and R. Goebel, Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
✍ Scribed by Benedict du Boulay
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 51 KB
- Volume
- 125
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3702
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✦ Synopsis
This review examines four relatively recent general purpose AI textbooks. Each aims to offer a broad-ranging introduction to the subject in more or less formal terms. That is, each is aimed mainly at undergraduate or graduate students with some mathematical or computer science background rather than at students expecting to study from a Cognitive Science perspective, with backgrounds in psychology, linguistics or philosophy.
These books thus fall into the same general category as, say [2,5,6], but have been updated for the mid-late 1990s. Although taking account of contemporary concerns within AI such as "situatedness", by outlook they are all books predominantly in the tradition of good old fashioned AI (GOFAI). That is to say, they all put representation at the heart of the subject.
Before discussing each book in turn, let me offer some general comments. They are all well-written, detailed and offer a good introduction to the subject. They all cover, inter alia,