- Hardcover: 912 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (Dec 13 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131038052
- ISBN-13: 978-0131038059
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 19 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #313,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach introduces basic ideas in artificial intelligence from the perspective of building intelligent agents, which the authors define as "anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon the environment through effectors." This textbook is up-to-date and is organized using the latest principles of good textbook design. It includes historical notes at the end of every chapter, exercises, margin notes, a bibliography, and a competent index. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach covers a wide array of material, including first-order logic, game playing, knowledge representation, planning, and reinforcement learning.
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"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)
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Introduction, But Not the Whole Enchilada,
By A Customer
This review is from: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
This book is useful as an introductory textbook. After reading this book, I produced an game playing system with randomized behavior that was able to beat very good (but not expert) players at several different games with quite quick play. If you want to build a game opponent, or do some basic expert-system logic, or take a stab at a simple neural net classifier, this book can get you started.There's a great deal more to AI than this book presents, and if you want to do anything really sophisticated this book won't get you there. Everyone I have ever met with this book had problems with the binding coming apart. Complaints to the publisher have not produced books with any better bindings. It makes it difficult to use as a reference, because the pages keep falling out. If this was just one copy, I wouldn't mention it, but I have seen at least 30 copies with the same problem.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A comprehensive and extensive book but ...,
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This review is from: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
i got this book from my local bookstore. This book covers most topics in AI. It is more comprehensive than most AI book i have read. However i dislike the writing style employed in this book. The author needs to refine his writing style and review the contents to include more interesting examples and some humor. It is not wise to have long paragraphs in thick books. The author should also include pratical examples of AI applications and some AI codes instead of general theories. Still a great book !
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most comprehensive book on AI,
By D Ray (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach is definitely the most comprehensive book on AI I have come across. The latest edition covers everything from KR & Machine Learning to Robotics and Statistical learning, and has new chapters on Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Planning.Artificial Intelligence has diverse branches and it's hard to see the correlations between them. This book manages to take a very innovative "agent" approach and tries to show some parallels between very disparate methods. In my opinion, each branch of AI has made great progress by itself but more work needs to be done in trying to combine the different approaches together and create more comprehensive systems. The book does a very good job by making all these different approaches accessible in one volume. This book also covers each topic in depth as well. Interested readers can always look at the exhaustive list of references for further reading. I have seen a variety of people use this book: from professors who have been in the fields for many years, to my friends in humanities who are just curious to know what AI really is. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in AI.
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