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Devoloping your First Expert System: An Interactive Tutorial on CD-ROM

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In viewing the "Book" description and the graphic of the "Book" jacket online prior to purchasing it, I assumed the product was a book with a CD inside to support exercises. When I received and unpacked the product, I found the box (which looked like a book jacket) contained only a CD. My reaction was " OK, new format for publishing, the product must be a CD with a digital book inside that I can study on-screen, and print portions of as needed". The product is neither. It is an outline of a course that requires purchase of a separate textbook to be even modestly useful. The CD "course" contains video clips of interviews with industry leaders that tell the listener expert systems are wonderful. The "course" outline and content are written on the screen and narrated nearly verbatim. An example used to illustrate development of an expert system is the game of tennis, a game in which I have no interest or expertise, and don't understand the game-specific terms or the strategies assumed (it seems) by the authors to be known to all. There is nothing to print and little to use in this course (in my opinion) that cannot be found by spending a few hours on websites of actual expert systems developers and users. The content of the "Course" never seems to get past a "Table of Contents" and "Introduction" stage. To me, this "course" is a real disappointment, given the stature and knowledge of the author. As a respected educator, entrepreneur, inventor, and a true revolutionary in several knowledge engineering fields, I feel he could have, and should have, done a much better job with the chosen subject. But to be sure, this is only one person's opinion....

this book is very good for beginig to learn how to build expert systems

The book title and design looks deceiving from the outside. Not only does the title comes with no accompany book, the quality of the CD contents is outright disappointing and quite honestly...useless. The CD contains 10 chapters, with each chapter presented in a slide presentation format, and accompanied voice annotations which plainly just read out the slide's content. Its not even worthy of one star, and I strongly urge the publisher to terminate this title.

This book is not my moneys worth. I should have rather bought some pet food for my dog with the money I have waisted. I have some previous knowledge of expert system and now after looking this stupid contents...I feel I can truly teach this stupid authors one or two what is Expert System.