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Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size. Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.

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This is an overview of classical artificial intelligence (AI) programming via actual implementation of landmark systems (case studies). For the student interested in AI, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming is an invaluable history lesson. Even the programmer who is relatively uninterested in AI will find value in the book's basic introduction to Lisp and case studies written in Lisp. But perhaps the book's best feature is its information on efficiency considerations in Lisp. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming is worth purchasing for these discussions alone, which provide a wealth of useful guidelines for optimizing your code.

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Paradigms of AI Programming teaches advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical, performance issues of writing real working programs of significant size, including chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency. A discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions are included. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer. -- Book Description

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Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size. Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.

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Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size. Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition (October 15, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 976 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1558601910
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558601918
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.63 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.04 x 1.78 x 8.24 inches

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CHRISTOPHER HEBERT

Great Book, but don't get the Kindle version

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2015

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Great book, bad Kindle version.

I'm an undergrad. I bought this to learn Lisp, and it's absolutely blown my mind with how good it is. I've learned more from this book than I ever will from my college classes. I'd say this has been a really good introduction to Lisp, and a really good introduction to AI. It's easily becoming my favorite programming book. It's covered more material than 3/4 of my programming classes combined.

The kindle version is bad though. The syntax is all wonky, which is critical when you need to differentiate `s from 's and ,s from .s. There are tons of misspellings in the kindle version. The code formatting is very difficult to read. Thankfully I've been able to get the code from the Peter Norvig's web page. If you can, get the paper edition. This is the second Common Lisp book I've read, so I've had enough experience that I can debug all of these problems myself.

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Victor Lemeshev

A good AI book and an advanced 1000-page CL tutorial

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2013

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As for AI part I must say that even though this book is somewhat old, its still very good for people new to the world of AI (such as myself). Since I only have another Norvig's book (http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approach-Edition/dp/0137903952/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1359373092&sr=8-3&keywords=Norvig) to compare to I must say that this book takes a more practical approach, allowing one to understand ways in which implementation efficiency can be improved.

For CL part - the best CL introduction and real world usage book in my opinion. Yes, I've read PCL, yet still this book digs a lot deeper when it comes to optimization patterns for Common Lisp. Motivation for almost every design choice is clear (overcoming Prolog's drawbacks is one of my favorite parts).

Also this book offers a variety of exercises and some of those are quite a time-killers.

As for cons - some of the exercises are formulated a bit freely. And again, book is 20 years old, so some content is a bit outdated, especially techno-related.

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WisdomFusion

Out of print but valuable CL and AI book

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2013

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If you are programming in Common Lisp, Lisp dialects or doing research on AI, this is the very book you need.

However, when the book shipped to me, the box wrapping my book is so big and no extra proctection, so it hurt a bit when handled in my hands. I hope more proctection to my next international shipping. Thanks in advance.

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m00nlight

Excellent for both AI and Common Lisp

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2013

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This is a excellent book for both the history of AI and a lot of program written very well in Common Lisp. Peter Norvig is actually
very enthusastic about AI and programming. From a glimpse of the book, I know it is valuable for learner both of AI and Common Lisp. So I decided to buy one for myself.

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Great practical programming book; dated treatment of AI but still interesting.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2018

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Classic book on both programming and AI. While the AI material is obviously dated, the programming examples are great for anyone who wants to learn Common Lisp.

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Bob Robert

The best

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2015

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The best Lisp book for experienced programmers. He shows how to develop medium sized Lisp systems. I don't know of any books that show
large Lisp systems. But, you can download large system code and try to understand it yourself.

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First-rate introduction to AI and LISP

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2013

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In my opinion, this book is essential reading for anyone who seriously sets out to learn about artificial intelligence, and as far as I can see, it is also prime reference material for anyone already working in the field.

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Aditya

A mediocre AI / LISP book with very well-written examples

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2011

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First, the good:

This book is a great read, both the code and non-code sections. Peter Norvig is clearly passionate about AI, and it comes through in his examples. His writing is clear and fun to read. His code examples are fantastic. When he begins a chapter by describing a problem, you think "wow, that's going to take ages to get through." Then you flip the page, and he's got all the code down on the next page. It's a real joy to see clear, concise, well-written code like this. This is probably what musicians feel when they listen to a Beethoven sonata.

The bad: the examples are historical (read: dated), and they don't teach you a whole lot about either AI or Lisp. If you know depth first search and regular expressions, you can breeze through the first 250 pages of this book: it won't show you anything besides some very well-written code (which, let me emphasize again, is really great to read). Unless you are using Lisp as your programming language (I'm using Haskell), section 3 (optimizing your Lisp code + Logic programming) will be hit and miss too.

So, to sum up:

If you want to learn Lisp, Norvig recommends Paul Graham's book.
If you want to learn AI, Norvig has written AI: A Modern Approach.

I spent five bucks on a used copy of this book, and felt like I got my money's worth. I would definitely not spend $80+ on it.

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bharath

Classic book for lisp and ai

Reviewed in India on February 26, 2020

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Very good to pick up lisp as well as AI. Code seems to have some minor incompatibility with modern implementations like SBCL. But too early to say it definitely

Maxzc

but it's also accidentally the best introduction to programming and structured thinking that money can ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2015

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OK, the title makes it appear as if this is an AI book. It is, but it's also accidentally the best introduction to programming and structured thinking that money can buy. It introduces data oriented programming by working through classic AI examples, building from Eliza to the game of Othello. The code is in Lisp, but this is easily translated to your favourite variant (Scheme / Clojure).

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Zweilindt

Ein Schlager!

Reviewed in Germany on February 16, 2015

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Nein, ernsthaft, mit dem Wälzer und seinem Nachfolger "Künstliche Intelligenz" kann man morden :)
*Spaßmodus aus*
Das Buch vermittelt äußerst anschaulich Common Lisp auf dem Level der zweiten Ausgaben von GLS, dem großen Quux, wobei es ein viel besserer Lehrer ist, als CLtL2 ... aber das war auch niemals die Ambition zweiterens. Das Buch geht sehr detailiert auf die einzelnen Themen ein, ohne zu langeweilen, die enthaltenen Quellcode sind fehlerfrei - dennoch muß man gelegentlich Hand anlegen, um sie mit einem modernen Common Lisp zur 100% Funktion zu bringen. Das Buch selber ist wie gesagt, nicht viel wert, wenn man nicht auch B sagt und sich Künstliche Intelligenz in der 3., aktualisierten Auflage gönnt, wahlweise auch auf Englisch, aber die deutsche Fassung ist phantastisch!

Als Programme im Buch werden besprochen ein genereller Problemlöser besprochen, eine Eliza-Dialogmachine und schließlich auch Student, ein englischsprachiger Löser für Algebra-Wort-Probleme. Und das alles gerade mal im ersten Viertel des Buches, bevor es wirklich hinab in die Tiefen geht.
Norvig beläßt es nicht einfach dabei zu vermitteln, wie man diese Programme unter Common Lisp programmiert, er versucht wirklich die Techniken und Gedanken dahinter zu vermitteln - und geht dann erneut auf Common Lisp ein, erklärt wie man besser damit programmiert, effizienter - etwas, was in keinem anderen Buch zu finden ist.
In späteren Teilen des Buches wird man dann auch noch an Prolog und Scheme herangeführt - und auch an die Verarbeitung englischer Sprache ("Does Kim like Lee?", "Is he a doctor?").
Wer es ernst meint, man verbringt einige Monate damit, die mehr als 900 Seiten gewissenhaft durchzuarbeiten - und es fällt nicht immer ganz leicht, den Groschen auch zum Fallen zu bringen, jedoch ist dies nicht dem Autoren anzulasten, der wirklich meisterhaftes mit diesem Werk vollbringt.

Kleiner Tip zum Schluß: Wem Common Lisp gefällt, der sollte sich mal an Racket heranwagen, denn dieses wird im Gegensatz zu Common Lisp noch aktiv weiterentwickelt - und die Grundzüge hat man nach dem Durcharbeiten dieses Buches bereits verstanden, als Übersetzter hilft hier der Hyperpolyglot [...] weiter.
Racket zeigt einem dann, was der wahre Geist von Lisp war und ist - und wie man es auch heutzutage nutzbringend einsetzen kann. Und die Erstellung eigener ausführbarer Dateien ist mit Racket ein Kinderspiel. Bei Common Lisp gibt es dafür keinen Mechanismus - hier ist man auf Zusatzfunktionen des jeweiligen Compiler-Bauers angewiesen.

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Luis Felipe Lopez Pellicena

Un buen libro

Reviewed in Spain on July 28, 2014

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Un buen libro que ofrece material valioso a quienes deseen seguir investigando en IA de una forma clásica, no cayendo en la pedantería de muchos textos farragosos producidos por profesores de universidad sin experiencia real que se limitan a hablar de "metodologías" y de sus atrasados proyectos de sistemas expertos (eso si, sin exponer código). Muy adecuado como referencia histórica y rico en ejemplos escritos en buen Lisp, no utilizando las infames redes neuronales u otras pedanterías de moda graduadas a la comprensión de un público incapaz de ir más allá del mediocre Java o inventos similares para programadores baratos (hace poco hable con uno de estos programadores baratos, que me pretendía explicar que el Java tenía "funciones lambda" ... sin comentarios). Recomiendo al lector ducho en Lisp especialmente los capítulos sobre la implementación de Prolog sobre Lisp o a la escritura de un compilador para éstos

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Pierre

Faut-il encore présenter Peter Norvig ?

Reviewed in France on June 16, 2013

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Eh bien, comme tout ce qu'écrit ce monsieur, il s'agit encore d'un livre formidable. Il faut du temps pour l'absorber complètement. Connaître le langage lisp est absolument nécessaire même si les fonctionnalités utilisées sont simples pour commencer.

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