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In article <6440@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rose@beowulf.UCSD.EDU (Dan Rose) writes:
}In article <1468@dsacg1.UUCP> ntm1169@dsacg1.UUCP (Mott Given) writes:
}>From article <May.11.21.37.33.1989.11101@galaxy.rutgers.edu>, by
}>wjones@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Wendell E Jones):
}>>     I am looking for a good ai book.  I can be ten years or 2 weeks

[Several recommendations for books on Expert Systems omitted.]

}As the range of topics discussed in this newsgroup should indicate,
}Expert Systems is *not* all there is to AI!  In fact, it's just one
}small piece.  Rather than argue about this, I'll just indicate how
}much of some popular AI textbooks have to do with expert systems:
}
}Handbook of AI (Barr & Feigenbaum): 2 out of 15 sections.
}AI (Rich): 1 out of 13 chapters.
}Intro to AI: (Charniak & McDermott): 1 out of 11 chapters.
}AI (Winston): 1 out of 9 chapters.

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man, ( Boden), Harvester
Press: a few pages out of 500.

Artificial Intelligence: Tools, Techniques, and Applications, (O'Shea
and Eisenstadt), Harper & Row: 1 out of 15 chapters.

One could argue that one of the reasons Expert Systems are being given
as _much_ prominence as this is because their high media and commercial
profile demands it in popular undergrad textbooks :-)-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK