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...

Previous treatments of Artificial Intelligence (AI) divide the subject into its major areas of application, namely, natural language processing, automatic programming, robotics, machine vision, automatic theorem proving, intelligent data retrieval systems, etc. The major difficulty with this approach is that these application areas are now so extensive, that each could, at best, be only superficially treated in a book of this length. Instead, I have attempted here to describe fundamental AI ideas that underlie many of these applications. My organization of these ideas is not, then, based on...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field within computer science that is attempting to build enhanced intelligence into computer systems. This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today s AI engineers. AI is becoming more and more a part of everyone s life. The technology is already embedded in face-recognizing cameras, speech-recognition software, Internet search engines, and health-care robots, among other applications. The book s many diagrams and easy-to-understand descriptions of AI...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field within computer science that is attempting to build enhanced intelligence into computer systems. This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today s AI engineers. AI is becoming more and more a part of everyone s life. The technology is already embedded in face-recognizing cameras, speech-recognition software, Internet search engines, and health-care robots, among other applications. The book s many diagrams and easy-to-understand descriptions of AI...

Dieses Buch basiert auf zwei zentralen Annahmen: Fur den wissen schaftlichen und technischen Fortschritt einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin ist erstens ein geeignetes mathematisches Handwerkszeug zur Formulierung und Zusammenfassung neuer Ideen notig. Zweitens ist die symbolische Logik ein sehr wesentlicher Bestandteil der in der Forschung uber Kunstliche Intelligenz (KI) verwendeten Mathe matik. Beide Behauptungen mussen begrundet werden. Man sollte allerdings meinen, unser erster Grundsatz fande ei gentlich allgemeine Zustimmung. Dennoch gibt es in neuen Wissen schaftsgebieten, in denen das...

Previous treatments of Artificial Intelligence (AI) divide the subject into its major areas of application, namely, natural language processing, automatic programming, robotics, machine vision, automatic theorem proving, intelligent data retrieval systems, etc. The major difficulty with this approach is that these application areas are now so extensive, that each could, at best, be only superficially treated in a book of this length. Instead, I have attempted here to describe fundamental AI ideas that underlie many of these applications. My organization of these ideas is not, then, based on...