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From: me@brooklyn.princeton.edu (Speck of Dust)
Subject: Re: Teaching AI
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| A friend of mine (who does not have a net access) is intending
| to teach AI for management oriented students. He is intending
| to use prolog as a vehicle for that. He wants some opinion
| from experts in AI.

Coming from the student side (sorry, I don't think I fall under
the category of *experts* in AI, but it's an angle), I have just
finished another AI course, which was taught quite well.

| 1. What would be best recommended book for teaching AI and Prolog?
|      (Last year he chose Knowledge Based Systems through Prolog
|      by Steven Kim as the text book).

Professor Kasif, from John Hopkins, but teaching at Princeton, made the
same decision that a previous poster made -- to teach both LISP (his
choice) or another language, would hamper his ability to cover as much
of the AI field as he would have liked. A textbook with good examples
(I haven't looked to see how much it is management oriented) is by
Russel, but it isn't published yet, so I *think* the title is *Introduction
to AI*

| 3. What would be an interesting course outline to teach?

The book presents a very good outline.


Hope I could help any.

-- Sal Desiano
smile.

