From intro-cs@aw.com Fri Jan 27 14:45:52 EST 1995 Article: 26819 of comp.ai Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.edu Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!aw.com!intro-cs From: intro-cs@aw.com (B/C Computer Science) Subject: New book on artificial intelligencvee Message-ID: Keywords: artificial intelligence, books Organization: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 19:26:55 GMT Lines: 26 Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:26819 comp.ai.edu:2241 comp.edu:11427 Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Announces: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE Thomas Dean, James Allen, and Yiannis Aloimonos This modern introduction to AI emphasizes both the scientific theory and practical applications involved in developing systems capable of machine intelligence. The authors discuss representational and computational issues in terms of their syntax, semantics, and computation and offer detailed coverage of both traditional symbolic reasoning techniques and alternative techniques such as neural networks and image processing. They also show the implementation of algorithms by first using pseudocode and then Lisp code. To ensure that readers fully understand AI and its applications, the authors provide motivating examples throughout. "AI in Practice" boxes appear in each chapter, demonstrating real-world uses of artificial intelligence by NASA, General Motors Corporation, and other companies. Plus, Lisp Implementation appendices are found at the end of most chapters, providing fully-documented implementations of important algorithms (also available in Scheme and C++ implementations via ftp). For a detailed ASCII brochure reply to: intro-cs@bc.aw.com.