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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
>       
>   I would recommend the book "Expert Systems: A Non-programmer's Guide
>   . . .
>   I would also recommend Paul Harmon's books.  One of the books is called
>   Expert Systems: Artificial Intelligence in Business . . .
>
>   Finally, I would recommend a recently published book called Expert
>   Systems for Experts.

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.

I have yet to find an AI book I really like, but at the very least
it should say something about most of AI research, including search,
planning, knowledge representation, learning, vision, language
understanding . . .  (And this list only includes "mainstream" AI,
omitting work on connectionism, genetic algorithms, artificial life,
etc.)
					Dan
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