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From: shawg@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Shaw Green)
Subject: Re: What should I read next?
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:46:00 GMT
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Jeff Gerke (jgerke@airmail.net) wrote:
: I am brand spanking new to the world of AI, but I want to know more. 

: I have read an introductory "text"--a magazine,
: actually--"Hitchhiker's Guide to Artificial Intelligence." That
: magazine introduced me to Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Fuzzy
: Systems, Case-Based Reasoning, Expert Systems, and Speech Recognition.

: What should I read next? I am no scientist. I am a novelist. So
: whatever texts you recommend need to be fairly readable to someone
: without a degree in computer science or quantum physics. (I do have a
: Master of Divinity degree, though, so the discussions of Free Will
: I've been monitoring here shouldn't be beyond me.)

: The areas of AI I'm most interested in after reading that magazine are
: Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and anything having to do with
: teams of robots.

: Thank you for your kind assistance.

: Jeff


Well a fairly readable book to someone with a basic maths background on
the subject of Genetic algorithms is a book by David E Goldberg entitled
Genetic Algorithms in search optimization and machine learning. When I
say basic maths I mean really basic just simple probabilities and other
high school maths should do unlesss you are interested in some of the 
theoretical stuff about schemas and such

hope this is of help

Shaw Green


