

Hardcover: 1132 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (December 30, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137903952
ISBN-13: 978-0137903955
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.8 x 10.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
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I didn't think that the first edition of this book was as bad as some of the reviewers said, but the second edition is definitely a vast improvement. It's not just some obligatory 2nd edition that some authors release to say that they are staying actively published. The first edition was somewhat confusing in its explanations and the exercises were really blurry on what was being asked. All of that has now been resolved.The book is a comprehensive and insightful introduction to artificial intelligence with an academic tone. It provides a unified view of the field organized around the rational decision making paradigm, which focuses on the selection of the "best" solution to a problem. The book's overall theme is that the purpose of AI is to solve problems via intelligent agents, and then goes about specifying the features such an agent or agents should have. Pseudocode is provided for all of the major AI algorithms. Being about the broadest book in terms of coverage of AI, you should therefore not expect it to be the deepest in coverage. However, each topic is covered to the extent that the reader should understand its essence. Sections one through six are absolutely wonderful, and comprise the "meat" of AI. Section seven is rather weak since it tries to cover both robotics and text processing in their own individual chapters, and entire books have a hard time covering this material. Section eight is different from the others, since it talks about the philosophy and future of AI.Another plus for this book is that there is a great deal of extra material that deals with standard AI curriculum.
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