Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis - Softcover

Nilsson, Nils J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558605355 ISBN 13: 9781558605350

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997

Synopsis

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. A distinguishing feature of this text is in its evolutionary approach to the study of AI. This book provides a refreshing and motivating synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researches.

An evolutionary approach provides a unifying theme
Thorough coverage of important AI ideas, old and new
Frequent use of examples and illustrative diagrams
Extensive coverage of machine learning methods throughout the text
Citations to over 500 references
Comprehensive index

About this title

About the Author:

Nils J. Nilsson's long and rich research career has contributed much to AI. He has written many books, including the classic Principles of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Nilsson is Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He has served on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and as an Area Editor for the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. Former Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford, and former Director of the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center, he is also a past president and Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558605355
• ISBN 13: 9781558605350
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536