Artificial Intelligence
Principles and applications
Published on 1. May 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-412-27240-0 (ISBN)
Description
Workers for the past 25 years in this discipline have tried to reproduce human behaviour on computers. This book presents a survey of their achievements and the problems they still face. Each chapter is written by a researcher on subject and include coverage of such topics as: computer vision, speech processing, robotics, natural language processing, expert systems and machine learning. This book should be of interest to computer scientists and engineers interested in artificial intelligence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
ISBN-13
978-0-412-27240-0 (9780412272400)
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Content
Part 1. Principles of artificial intelligence, John Campbell. Part 2 Tools and techniques: artificial intelligence programming environments and the POPLOG system, John Gibson; LISP, lists and pattern-matching, Tony Hasemer. Part 3 Applications: computer processing of natural languages, Alan Ramsay; levels of representation in computer speech synthesis and recognition, Stephen Isard; computer vision, David Hogg; artificial intelligence and robotics, Michael Brady; the anatomy of expert systems, Richard Forsyth. Part 4 Frontiers: machine learning, Richard Forsyth; memory models of man and machine, Ajit Narayanan. Part 5 Implications: why artificial intelligence needs an empirical foundation, Noel E Sharkey and Gordan D A Brown; breaking out of the chinese room, Steve Torrance; social implications of artificial intelligence, Derek Partridge.