g-zeiden@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Matthew Zeidenberg) (04/24/88)
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? Thanks in advance.
demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David E Demers) (04/25/88)
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
ong@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (04/26/88)
How about Nilsson and Genesereth's Logical Foundations of AI? Some of the chapters are definitely not introductory stuff, but it is written in a very clear and concise manner. Students might find it interesting to be exposed to neural networks in an introductory AI course, too.
morus@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas M.) (04/28/88)
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 -- ! Thomas Muhr Knowledge-Based Systems Dept. Technical University of Berlin ! ! BITNET/EARN: muhrth@db0tui11.bitnet ! ! UUCP: morus@netmbx.UUCP (Please don't use from outside Germany) ! ! BTX: 030874162 Tel.: (Germany 0049) (Berlin 030) 87 41 62 !