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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The first edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach has become a classic in the AI literature. It has been adopted by over 600 universities in 60 countries, and has been praised as the definitive synthesis of the field.

In the second edition, every chapter has been extensively rewritten. Significant new material has been introduced to cover areas such as constraint satisfaction, fast propositional inference, planning graphs, internet agents, exact probabilistic inference, Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques, Kalman filters, ensemble learning methods, statistical learning, probabilistic natural language models, probabilistic robotics, and ethical aspects of AI.

The book is supported by a suite of online resources including source code, figures, lecture slides, a directory of over 800 links to "AI on the Web," and an online discussion group. All of this is available at:

aima.cs.berkeley.edu

Review:

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\"The publication of this textbook was a major step forward, not only for the teaching of AI, but for the unified view of the field that this book introduces. Even for experts in the field, there are important insights in almost every chapter.\" — Prof. Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State

\"Just terrific. The book I\'ve always been waiting for...the AI bible for the next decade.\" — Prof. Gerd Brewka (Vienna)

\"A marvelous achievement, a truly beautiful book!\" — Prof. Selmer Bringsjord, RPI

\"It\'s a great book, with incredible breadth and depth, and very well-written. Everyone I know who has used it in their class has loved it.\" — Prof. Haym Hirsh, Rutgers

\"I am deeply impressed by its unprecedented quality in presenting a coherent, balanced, broad and deep, enjoyable picture of the field of AI. It will become tire standard text for the years to come.\" — Prof. Wolfgang Bibel, Darmstadt

\"Terrific! Well-written and well-organised, with comprehensive coverage of the material that every AI student should know.\" — Prof. Martha Pollack (Michigan)

\"Outstanding ...Its descriptions are extremely clear and readable; its organization is excellent; its examples are motivating; and its coverage is scholarly and throughout! ...will deservedly dominate the field for some time.\" — Prof. Nils Nilsson, Stanford

\"The best book available now...It\'s almost as good as the book Charniak and I wrote, but more up to date. (Okay I\'ll admit it, it may even be better than our book.)\" — Prof. Drew McDermott, Yale

\"A magisterial wide scope account of the entire field of Artificial Intelligence that will enlighten professors as well as students.\" — Dr. Alan Kay

\"This is the book that made me love AI.\" — Student (Indonesia)

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Synopsis:

The long-anticipated revision of this #1 selling book offers the most comprehensive, state of the art introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence for modern applications. Intelligent Agents. Solving Problems by Searching. Informed Search Methods. Game Playing. Agents that Reason Logically. First-order Logic. Building a Knowledge Base. Inference in First-Order Logic. Logical Reasoning Systems. Practical Planning. Planning and Acting. Uncertainty. Probabilistic Reasoning Systems. Making Simple Decisions. Making Complex Decisions. Learning from Observations. Learning with Neural Networks. Reinforcement Learning. Knowledge in Learning. Agents that Communicate. Practical Communication in English. Perception. Robotics. For computer professionals, linguists, and cognitive scientists interested in artificial intelligence.

About the Author

Stuart Russell was born in 1962 in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award. He was a 1996 Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor's Professorship in 2000. In 1998, he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University. He is a Fellow and former Executive Council member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 100 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. His other books include The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction and (with Eric Wefald) Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality.

Peter Norvig is director of Search Quality at Google, Inc. He is a Fellow and Executive Council member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw NASA's research and development in artificial intelligence and robotics. Before that he served as chief scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet information extraction services, and as a senior scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories working on intelligent information retrieval. He received a B.S. in applied mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at Berkeley. He has over 50 publications in computer science including the books Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.

Table of Contents

I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
 1. Introduction.

 2. Intelligent Agents.

II. PROBLEM-SOLVING.

 3. Solving Problems by Searching.

 4. Informed Search and Exploration.

 5. Constraint Satisfaction Problems.

 6. Adversarial Search.

III. KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING.

 7. Logical Agents.

 8. First-Order Logic.

 9. Inference in First-Order Logic.

10. Knowledge Representation.

IV. PLANNING.

11. Planning.

12. Planning and Acting in the Read World.

V. UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING.

13. Uncertainty.

14. Probabilistic Reasoning Systems.

15. Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time.

16. Making Simple Decisions.

17. Making Complex Decisions.

VI. LEARNING.

18. Learning from Observations.

19. Knowledge in Learning.

20. Statistical Learning Methods.

21. Reinforcement Learning.

VII. COMMUNICATING, PERCEIVING, AND ACTING.

22. Agents that Communicate.

23. Text Processing in the Large.

24. Perception.

25. Robotics.

VIII. CONCLUSIONS.

26. Philosophical Foundations.

27. AI: Present and Future.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780137903955
Subtitle:
A Modern Approach
Author:
Russell, Stuart J.
Author:
Russell, Stuart
Author:
Norvig, Peter
Author:
Russell, Stuart J.
Author:
Russell, Sturat J.
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Subject:
Artificial Intelligence
Subject:
Artificial Intelligence - General
Subject:
Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Copyright:
Edition Number:
2
Series:
Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence
Publication Date:
January 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
1081
Dimensions:
10.48x8.06x1.80 in. 4.70 lbs.

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