[soc.college] A good beginning text for AI

marshek@ut-ngp.UUCP (MAt) (10/06/87)

Hi there,
	I would like to know about a good introductory text for AI and
the LISP language. I have a background in C, fortran but I presume that
does not help much, does it?
MAt

munson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson) (10/07/87)

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
munson@renoir.berkeley.edu
...ucbvax!renoir!munson

marshek@ut-ngp.UUCP (MAt) (10/08/87)

Ladies and Gentlemen,
	I would like to thank y'all sincerely for all the responses I
received. Y'all are definitely an extremely co-operative bunch....
Mat