PAC: Foundations of Algorithms 6E with eBook

Richard Neapolitan's research interests include probablity'and statistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science.and applications of probabilistic modeling to fields such as medicine, biology, and finance. Dr. Neapolitan has given talks and conducted seminars throughout the world, including Australia and Hungary. His online tutorial concerning causal learning has been viewed over 10,000 times and has a 5-star rating (see http://videolectures.net/kdd/).Dr. Neapolitan is a prolific author and has published in the most prestigious widely used broad area of reasoning under uncertainty. He has written six books, including the seminal 1989 Bayesian network text, Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems; this textbook, Foundations of Algorithms (1996, 1998, 2003, 2011, 2013), which has been translated into several languages and is one of the most widely-used algorithms texts worldwide; Learning Bayesian Networks (2004); Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics (2007); Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics (2009); and Contemporary Artificial Intelligence (2012). His approach to textbook writing is innovative; his books have the reputation of making difficult concepts easy to understand while still remaining rigorous and thought-provoking.''