SAC8463%ocvaxa@vb.cc.cmu.edu (02/08/88)
>I have to do some research on Artificial Intelligence (primarily the >history , but also current applications) and I would like to know if >anyone could recommend a good (and recent) book dealing with the two areas >of AI I have mentioned. Thank you. The Winter 1988 issue of _Daedalus (no flames; it is Greek, after all!), The Journal Of The Something-or-other Society of Arts and Sciences_ is devoted to Aritificial Intelligence, and contains some enlightening articles on the history and theory of AI, both as a field and a science. (Is there a difference? I say yes...) Contributors include luminaries such as Minsky and Papert. I picked my copy off the magazine shelf at a bookstore; it shouldn't be too hard too find. It's cheap, too ($5.00) I am just getting into AI myself, and have found the journal to be very helpful in getting my feet on the ground. For a serious research project, the extensive bibliographies of the articles should be useful, too. Hope this helps!