murray@cs.strath.ac.uk (Murray Wood) (08/21/87)
I am preparing a set of 24 introductory lectures on AI aimed at presenting the main concepts, techniques and applications with little regard for theory. The students are in their second year having only programmed in Pascal. Although I intend to spend 4/5 lectures discussing the relative merits of Prolog and Lisp there is no time to actually program in either of these languages. The course is therefore intended to be programming language independent. I would like to recommend a textbook to the students and be able to follow it quite closely in the lectures - can anybody suggest a good book, ideally costing less than 20 pounds (30 dollars) ? My current intention is to use the book by Shirai and Tsujii 'Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques and Applications'. Does anybody have any experience and / or views on this book for such a course ? Thank You Murray -- ARPA: murray%cs.strath.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa, murray@cs.strath.ac.uk UUCP: murray@strath-cs.uucp, ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!murray JANET: murray@uk.ac.strath.cs