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The quest for artificial intelligence : a history of ideas and achievements / Nils J. Nilsson.

Title
The quest for artificial intelligence : a history of ideas and achievements / Nils J. Nilsson.
Author
Nilsson, Nils J., 1933-2019
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description
xv, 562 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field within computer science that is attempting to build enhanced intelligence into computer systems. This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today's AI engineers."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Dreams and dreamers -- Clues -- Gatherings -- Pattern recognition -- Early heuristic programs -- Semantic representations -- Natural language processing -- 1960s' infrastructure -- Computer vision -- "Hand-eye" research -- Knowledge representation and reasoning -- Mobile robots -- Progress in natural language processing -- Game playing -- The Dendral Project -- Conferences, books, and funding -- Speech recognition and understanding systems -- Consulting systems -- Understanding queries and signals -- Progress in computer vision -- Boomtimes -- The Japanese create a stir -- DARPA's strategic computing program -- Speed bumps -- Controversies and alternative paradigms -- Reasoning and representation -- Other approaches to reasoning and representation -- Bayesian networks -- Machine learning -- Natural languages and natural scenes -- Intelligent system architectures -- Extraordinary achievements -- Ubiquitous artificial intelligence -- Smart tools -- The quest continues.
ISBN
  • 9780521116398 (hardback)
  • 0521116392 (hardback)
  • 9780521122931 (pbk.)
  • 0521122937 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2009022604
OCLC
  • 396185265
  • SCSB-10623051
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library