Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Programming.

MELTZER, Bernard, & Nicholas Victor Findler (eds).

Published by Edinburgh: at the University Press, 1971

First UK edition of this collection of essays drawn from lectures given at the NATO Advance Study Institute held in August 1970 in Menaggio, Italy. "New intellectual channels were opened between different subjects" (preface). Meltzer (1916-2008) was a South African pioneer of artificial intelligence who researched radar for Britain during the Second World War. In 1970, he founded the journal Artificial Intelligence and later became a member of the International Joint Council in Artificial Intelligence. As the chair of what is now the University of Edinburgh's Department of Artificial Intelligence, he turned the university into a centre of excellence in the subject. "Taken together with his pioneering work, this will ensure that he will be remembered as a member of that small select band of scientists who founded Artificial Intelligence as a discipline in its own right" (University of Edinburgh). It was published simultaneously by American Elsevier. "Bernard Meltzer, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence", University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Octavo. Diagrams and tables within text. Original reddish brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine ends and corners gently rubbed; jacket unclipped, panels lightly soiled, a handful of nicks and small chips to extremities and along folds, contemporary price sticker on front flap: a fine copy in very good jacket. Seller Inventory # 182529

Bibliographic Details

Title: Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic ...
Publisher: Edinburgh: at the University Press, 1971
Edition: 1st Edition