Research Catalog

Title

The essence of artificial intelligence / Alison Cawsey.

Author

Cawsey, Alison.

Publication

London ; New York : Prentice Hall, 1998.

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Description

ix, 190 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Prentice Hall Essence of Computing Series provides a concise, practical and uniform introduction to the core components of an undergraduate computer science degree. Acknowledging the recent changes within Higher Education, this approach uses a variety of pedagogical tools - case studies, worked examples and self-test qustions - to underpin the student's learning." "The Essence of Artificial Intelligence provides a concise and accessible introduction to the topic for students with no prior knowledge of AI." "Taking a pragmatic approach to the subject, this book demystifies and makes the subject concrete and transparent. Examples and algorithms are given throughout and can be sensibly implemented in a range of different languages."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Essence of computing series

Uniform Title

Essence of computing series.

Subject

• Artificial intelligence
• Expert systems (Computer science)
• Artificial Intelligence
• Expert Systems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Knowledge representation and inference -- Expert systems -- Using search in problem solving -- Natural language processing -- Vision -- Machine learning and neural networks -- Agents and robots.

ISBN

0135717795 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97011460^

OCLC

36582119

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library