Artificial Intelligence (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

~ Winston (Author)

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Amazon.com Review

This book is one of the oldest and most popular introductions to artificial intelligence. An accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, Winston heads MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his hands-on AI research experience lends authority to what he writes. Winston provides detailed pseudo-code for most of the algorithms discussed, so you will be able to implement and test the algorithms immediately. The book contains exercises to test your knowledge of the subject and helpful introductions and summaries to guide you through the material.

Product Description

This is an eagerly awaited revision of the single bestselling introduction to Artificial Intelligence ever published. It retains the best features of the earlier works including superior readability, currency, and excellence in the selection of the examples.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 750 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley; 3 edition (May 10, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201533774
• ISBN-13: 978-0201533774
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #239,584 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful and well written; an industry perspective:, August 17, 1999

By A Customer

Suppose you are, like me, a software engineer who never actually studied CS beyond junior level undergraduate 'data structures'... and now you have to work on something involving complicated pattern matching... this is how to do it: buy this book and Sipser's on the Theory of Computation. After digesting them (which is easy if you're as good with logical mathematics as the typical software engineer), you should be able to read current literature in either field, and will have a deep, fundamental understanding of how to best solve whatever problem you're working on. That's what worked for me, anyway. An excellent book, as is Sipser's.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good as an undergraduate text, December 18, 1998

By A Customer

This book serves as an excellent introduction to what is in reality a very broad topic. Not meant for serious research into any one particular area of AI, the text is excellent for undergraduates(with questions that aren't worded too badly - a rarity in AI texts). More advanced AI topics are given short shrift(as is typical), but are covered in sufficient depth to give students an idea of how they work(three chapters worth if I'm not mistaken, more than most texts).

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly excellent survey of the field of AI, June 18, 1999

By A Customer

Having purchased this book as a supplement to Winston's course at MIT, I can very highly recommend it as a very comprehensive, up-to-date, well written text summarizing the field. The book covers essentially all of the topics pertenant in modern AI with enough detail for a complete implementation without being overly technical. I strongly recommend it to anybody looking to build intelligent systems or to anybody simply perusing the field for abstract ideas.