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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2013
      October 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511819346
      9780521116398
      9780521122931
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819346
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.92kg, 578 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.79kg, 580 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, Computing: General Interest
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    Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, Computing: General Interest
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    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 programs will help the casual reader gain an understanding of how these and other AI systems actually work. Its thorough (but unobtrusive) end-of-chapter notes containing citations to important source materials will be of great use to AI scholars and researchers. This book promises to be the definitive history of a field that has captivated the imaginations of scientists, philosophers, and writers for centuries.

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    '… [a] balanced look at what AI has been able to do during its first 50 years of existence. His personal recollections and the rationale behind many decisions, as retold by an insider, make this book a unique contribution, interesting both for the informed and for the general reader. Both kinds of readers can learn a lot from Nilsson’s book about the evolution of this now-mature research field. The book is written in a friendly conversational style, without any unnecessary mathematical formalisms, and is richly illustrated with many diagrams that depict representative AI systems and photographs of the many innovators that led to their development.'

    Fernando Berzal Source: Reviews.com

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