The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence

By Karen A. (editor) Winston, Patrick H. (editor) ; Prendergast

Book Overview

What is the bottom line on Artificial Intelligence? The AI Business offers a comprehensive summary of the commercial picture, present and future, for Artificial Intelligence in the computer industry, medicine, the oil industry, and electronic design. AI's brightest and best--financiers, researchers, and users--analyze current projects, speculate on trends in factory automation, compare research in Japan and the U.S., and note the pros and cons of investment opportunities. Contents Expert Systems * Amplifying Expertise with Expert Systems, Randall Davis (MIT) * XCON: An Expert Configuration System at Digital Equipment Corporation, Arnold Kraft (DEC) * DIPMETER ADVISOR: An Expert Logo Analysis System at Schlumberger, James D. Baker (Schlumberger) * CADUCEUS: An Experimental Expert System for Medical Diagnosis, Harry E. Pople, Jr. (University of Pittsburgh) * The Low Road, the Middle Road, and the High Road, John Seely Brown (Xerox) * Work and Play. Inventing the Future, Alan Kay (Atari) * The Engineer's Apprentice, Aryeh Finegold (Daisy Systems Corporation) * The Programmer's Apprentice, Charles Rich (MIT) * Intelligent Advisory Systems, Roger Schank (Cognitive Systems, Inc. and Yale University) * Natural Language Front Ends, Larry R. Harris (Artificial Intelligence Corporation) * Robotics. Intelligent Robots: Connecting Perception to Action, Michael Brady (MIT) * Intelligent Robots: Moving toward Megassembly, Philippe Villers (Automatix, Inc.) * Intelligent Robots: Myth or Reality, Paul M. Russo (GE) * Today and Tomorrow. The Problems and the Promise, Marvin Minsky (MIT) * An Investment Opportunity? Frederick R. Adler (Adler & Company) * Financing the Future, William H. Janeway (F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.) * From the Blocks World to the Business World, Patrick H. Winston and Karen A. Prendergast (MIT) * How to Learn More

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262730774
• ISBN13: 9780262730778
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher