Artificial Intelligence

by Patrick Henry Winston

Book Overview

This is an eagerly awaited revision of the single bestselling introduction to Artificial Intelligence ever published. It retains the best features of the earlier works including superior readability, currency, and excellence in the selection of the examples.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201082594
• ISBN13: 9780201082593
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 527 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very useful and well written; an industry perspective:

Suppose you are, like me, a software engineer who never actually studied CS beyond junior level undergraduate 'data structures'... and now you have to work on something involving complicated pattern matching... this is how to do it: buy this book and Sipser's on the Theory of Computation. After digesting them (which is easy if you're as good with logical mathematics as the typical software engineer), you should be able to read current literature in either field, and will have a deep, fundamental understanding of how to best solve whatever problem you're working on. That's what worked for me, anyway. An excellent book, as is Sipser's.

A truly excellent survey of the field of AI

Having purchased this book as a supplement to Winston's course at MIT, I can very highly recommend it as a very comprehensive, up-to-date, well written text summarizing the field. The book covers essentially all of the topics pertenant in modern AI with enough detail for a complete implementation without being overly technical. I strongly recommend it to anybody looking to build intelligent systems or to anybody simply perusing the field for abstract ideas.

Rich AI Illustrations

This is a good supplement to "AI - A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig". The students and myself found the examples and illustration to be of great value in the understanding of the concepts. Would be great if authors could links references on the web for more information. Good book for the delivery of AI at foundation level.

Good as an undergraduate text

This book serves as an excellent introduction to what is in reality a very broad topic. Not meant for serious research into any one particular area of AI, the text is excellent for undergraduates(with questions that aren't worded too badly - a rarity in AI texts). More advanced AI topics are given short shrift(as is typical), but are covered in sufficient depth to give students an idea of how they work(three chapters worth if I'm not mistaken, more than most texts).

Silicon based life emerges from Martian beach! Not!!!

Well not exactly, P.H. Winston gives a great introduction to just how complicated intelligence is! Fortunately, he's a highly experienced carbon based terrian, so your neurons will be abuzz on endorphins. If you want real intelligence on AI, READ IT!! NASA Update: .... Evidence of biogenic activity on Mars!!!