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| Artificial Intelligence Illuminated
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Edition: 1
Author: Ben Coppin
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Release Date: 2004-03
ISBN-10: 0763732303
ISBN-13: 9780763732301
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Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today’s society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Life. Material is presented in a lively and accessible manner and the author focuses on explaining how AI techniques relate to and are derived from natural systems, such as the human brain and evolution, and explaining how the artificial equivalents are used in the real world. Each chapter includes student exercises and review questions, and a detailed glossary at the end of the book defines important terms and concepts highlighted throughout the text.
Disappointing
| Customer Rating: | | A big fan of the COMPUTER SCIENCE ILLUMINATED text, I had high hopes for this as a good text for my undergrad class on A.I.. I was sorely disappointed; this text is far too shallow for even a middle-level undergrad course. It also contains several errors, although that may be expected of a first edition. |
Artificial Intelligence Illuminated
| Customer Rating: | | It's new one, which has a great quality. And very quick delivery. Perfect purchase to me. |
Suitable for a brief course, inappropriate for a regular one
| Customer Rating: | I recently completed the abbreviated January term class at my college where I taught Artificial Intelligence (AI) using this book. The course was an experimental one with the goal being to eventually add it to our regular offerings. While I found this book adequate for the abbreviated session, I will not use it when AI is offered during a regular term.
I found the depth of coverage of most of the topics to be less than what I will need in a full semester course. The topics in the book are exactly what I would cover in such a course, but the examples are limited and too rare in appearance. For example, finite automata are introduced on pages 366-368 but the only example is the simplest possible automaton, a two state acceptor of an even number of a's.
Some of the notations were confusing and quite frankly unnecessarily so. A few additional words of explanation would have prevented a simple concept from appearing so complex. The pseudo-code used to demonstrate alpha-beta pruning was close to incomprehensible, although the example was simple. These examples and many others just made the book too hard to read.
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A Thorough Introduction and Beyond!
| Customer Rating: | This is an excellent book. It covers all aspects of AI in a friendly, clear manner. Despite being written as an undergraduate textbook it is easily accessible to someone like myself who is not doing a course in computing (or anything else for that matter).
The subject manner is handled well with enough diagrams and examples to ensure that you understand even the more esoteric concepts. It is presented in a manner that is enjoyable to read with many asides into the interesting applications in the real world (such as using AI in games programs like chequers and chess).
All in all I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in AI from any perspective, whether you are studying in a university or are just interested in learning more about AI in general. |
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