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Features

• NEW - Nontechnical learning material.

  • Provides a simple overview of major concepts, uses a nontechnical language to help increase understanding. Makes the book accessible to a broader range of students.

• NEW - The Internet as a sample application for intelligent systems–Examples of logical reasoning, planning, and natural language processing using Internet agents.

  • Promotes student interest with interesting, relevant exercises.

• NEW - Increased coverage of material–New or expanded coverage of constraint satisfaction, local search planning methods, multi-agent systems, game theory, statistical natural language processing and uncertain reasoning over time. More detailed descriptions of algorithms for probabilistic inference, fast propositional inference, probabilistic learning approaches including EM, and other topics.

  • Brings students up to date on the latest technologies, and presents concepts in a more unified manner.

• NEW - Updated and expanded exercises–75% of the exercises are revised, with 100 new exercises.

• NEW - More Online Software.

  • Allows many more opportunities for student projects on the web.

• A unified, agent-based approach to AI–Organizes the material around the task of building intelligent agents.

  • Shows students how the various subfields of AI fit together to build actual, useful programs.

• Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage–Includes a unified view of the field organized around the rational decision making paradigm.

• A flexible format.

  • Makes the text adaptable for varying instructors' preferences.

• In-depth coverage of basic and advanced topics.

  • Provides students with a basic understanding of the frontiers of AI without compromising complexity and depth.

• Pseudo-code versions of the major AI algorithms are presented in a uniform fashion, and Actual Common Lisp and Python implementations of the presented algorithms are available via the Internet.

  • Gives instructors and students a choice of projects; reading and running the code increases understanding.

• Author Maintained Website

• visit http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ to access text-related Comments and Discussions, AI Resources on the Web, and Online Code Repository, Instructor Resources, and more!

New To This Edition

• Nontechnical learning material.

  • Provides a simple overview of major concepts, uses a nontechnical language to help increase understanding. Makes the book accessible to a broader range of students.

• The Internet as a sample application for intelligent systems–Examples of logical reasoning, planning, and natural language processing using Internet agents.

  • Promotes student interest with interesting, relevant exercises.

• Increased coverage of material–New or expanded coverage of constraint satisfaction, local search planning methods, multi-agent systems, game theory, statistical natural language processing and uncertain reasoning over time. More detailed descriptions of algorithms for probabilistic inference, fast propositional inference, probabilistic learning approaches including EM, and other topics.

  • Brings students up to date on the latest technologies, and presents concepts in a more unified manner.

• Updated and expanded exercises–75% of the exercises are revised, with 100 new exercises.

• More Online Software.

  • Allows many more opportunities for student projects on the web.

• Author Maintained Website

• visit http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ to access text-related Comments and Discussions, AI Resources on the Web, and Online Code Repository, Instructor Resources, and more!

Table of Contents

I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

II. PROBLEM-SOLVING.

III. KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING.

IV. PLANNING.

V. UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING.

VI. LEARNING.

VII. COMMUNICATING, PERCEIVING, AND ACTING.

VIII. CONCLUSIONS.

Courses

Artificial Intelligence (AI)  (Computer Science)
Programming for Artificial Intelligence  (Computer Science)

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• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3/E
  Russell & Norvig
  ©2010  |  Prentice Hall  |  Cloth; 1152 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136042597  |  ISBN-13: 9780136042594
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Reviews

"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)

Author Bios

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.

Backcover Copy

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

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