The Best Intelligence & Semantics Books 2024

1. Intelligent Database Systems [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This book provides a state of the art guide to the new developments in expert database systems, from the unique perspective of both the database and AI areas. It gives complete and detailed coverage of the latest research and practice, including all the need-to-know technical and theoretical approaches in the area.

Intelligent Database Systems, Used [Paperback]

2. Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us. She spells out the key ethical debates concisely, exposing all sides of the arguments, and addresses how codes of ethics or other regulations might feasibly be developed, looking for pitfalls and opportunities, drawing on lessons learned in other fields, and explaining key points of professional ethics. The book provides a useful resource for those aiming to address the ethical challenges of AI research in meaningful and practical ways.

Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Research, Used [Hardcover]

3. Progress in Artificial Intelligence : 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA '97, Coimbra, Portugal, October 6-9, 1997 : Proceedings, Used [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA '97, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in October 1997. The volume presents 24 revised full papers and 9 revised posters selected from 74 submissions from various countries. Also included are two full invited papers and two abstracts of invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on automated reasoning and theorem proving; CBR and machine learning; constraints; intelligent tutoring; knowledge representation; multi-agent systems and DAI; nonmonotonic, qualitative and temporal reasoning, and problem solving.

Progress in Artificial Intelligence : 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA '97, Coimbra, Portugal, October 6-9, 1997 : Proceedings, Used [Paperback]

4. Formal Theories of the Commonsense World (Ablex Series in Artificial Intelligence) [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This volume is a collection of original contributions about the core knowledge in fundamental domains. It includes work on naive physics, such as formal specifications of intuitive theories of spatial relations, time causality, substance and physical objects, and on naive psychology.

Formal Theories of the Commonsense World, Used [Hardcover]

5. The AI business: The commercial uses of artificial intelligence [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. What is the bottom line on Artificial Intelligence? The AI Business offers a comprehensive summary of the commercial picture, present and future, for Artificial Intelligence in the computer industry, medicine, the oil industry, and electronic design. AI's brightest and best--financiers, researchers, and users--analyze current projects, speculate on trends in factory automation, compare research in Japan and the U.S., and note the pros and cons of investment opportunities. Contents Expert Systems * Amplifying Expertise with Expert Systems, Randall Davis (MIT) * XCON: An Expert Configuration System at Digital Equipment Corporation, Arnold Kraft (DEC) * DIPMETER ADVISOR: An Expert Logo Analysis System at Schlumberger, James D. Baker (Schlumberger) * CADUCEUS: An Experimental Expert System for Medical Diagnosis, Harry E. Pople, Jr. (University of Pittsburgh) * The Low Road, the Middle Road, and the High Road, John Seely Brown (Xerox) * Work and Play. Inventing the Future, Alan Kay (Atari) * The Engineer's Apprentice, Aryeh Finegold (Daisy Systems Corporation) * The Programmer's Apprentice, Charles Rich (MIT) * Intelligent Advisory Systems, Roger Schank (Cognitive Systems, Inc. and Yale University) * Natural Language Front Ends, Larry R. Harris (Artificial Intelligence Corporation) * Robotics. Intelligent Robots: Connecting Perception to Action, Michael Brady (MIT) * Intelligent Robots: Moving toward Megassembly, Philippe Villers (Automatix, Inc.) * Intelligent Robots: Myth or Reality, Paul M. Russo (GE) * Today and Tomorrow. The Problems and the Promise, Marvin Minsky (MIT) * An Investment Opportunity? Frederick R. Adler (Adler & Company) * Financing the Future, William H. Janeway (F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.) * From the Blocks World to the Business World, Patrick H. Winston and Karen A. Prendergast (MIT) * How to Learn More

The AI business: The commercial uses of artificial intelligence, Used [Hardcover]

6. Machine Learning : Paradigms and Methods, Used [Paperback]

Having played a central role at the inception of artificial intelligence research, machine learning has recently reemerged as a major area of study at the very core of the subject. Solid theoretical foundations are being constructed. Machine learning methods are being integrated with powerful performance systems, and practical applications; based on established techniques are emerging.Machine Learning unifies the field by bringing together and clearly explaining the major successful paradigms for machine learning: inductive approaches, explanation-based learning, genetic algorithms, and connectionist learning methods. Each paradigm is presented in depth, providing historical perspective but focusing on current research and potential applications. Contributors John R. Anderson, L. B. Booker, John. H. Gennari, Jaime G. Carbonell, Oren Etzioni, Doug Fisher, Yolanda Gil, D. E. Goldberg, Gerald E. Hinton, J. H. Holland, Craig A Knoblock, Daniel. R. Kuokka, Pat Langley, David B. Leake, Steve Minton, Jack Mostow, Roger C. Schank, and Jan M. Zytkow

Machine Learning : Paradigms and Methods, Used [Paperback]

7. Turing's World 3.0 for Mac: An Introduction to Computability Theory [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Turing's World is a self-contained introduction to Turing machines, one of the fundamental notions of logic and computer science. The text and accompanying diskette allow the user to design, debug, and run sophisticated Turing machines in a graphical environment on the Macintosh. Turning's World introduces users to the key concpets in computability theory through a sequence of over 100 exercises and projects. Within minutes, users learn to build simple Turing machines using a convenient package of graphical functions. Exercises then progress through a significant portion of elementary computability theory, covering such topics as the Halting problem, the Busy Beaver function, recursive functions, and undecidability. Version 3.0 is an extensive revision and enhancement of earlier releases of the program, allowing the construction of one-way and two-way finite state machines (finite automata), as well as nondeterministic Turing and finite-state machines. Special exercises allow users to explore these alternative machines.

Turing's World 3.0 : An Introduction to Computability Theory, Used [Paperback]

8. The Sentient Machine : The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence, Used [Hardcover]

In the tradition of Michio Kaku's The Future of the Mind , acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain answers the universal question of how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligenceand not only survive, but thrive. The future is now. Artificial "machine" intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars, automatic checkout at the drugstore, and are unable to live without our smartphones. The discussion around AI is largely polarized; people think either machines will solve all problems for everyone, or they will lead us down a dark, dystopian path into total human irrelevance. Regardless of what you believe, the idea that we might bring forth intelligent creation can be intrinsically frightening. But what if our greatest role as humans so far is that of creators? Amir Husain, a brilliant inventor and computer scientist argues that we are on the cusp of writing our next, and greatest, creation myth. It is the dawn of a new form of intellectual diversity, one that we need to embrace in order to advance the state of the art in many critical fields, including security, resource management, finance, and energy. In The Sentient Machine, he addresses broad existential questions surrounding the coming of AI: Why are we valuable? What can we create in this world? How are we intelligent? What constitutes progress for us? And how might we fail to progress? Husain boils down complex computer science and AI concepts into clear, plainspoken language and draws from a wide variety of cultural and historical references to illustrate his points. Ultimately, he challenges many of our societal norms and upends assumptions we hold about "the good life."

The Sentient Machine : The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence, Used [Hardcover]

9. Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This book is a collection of writings by active researchers in the field of Artificial General Intelligence, on topics of central importance in the field. Each chapter focuses on one theoretical problem, proposes a novel solution, and is written in sufficiently non-technical language to be understandable by advanced undergraduates or scientists in allied fields. This book is the very first collection in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) focusing on theoretical, conceptual, and philosophical issues in the creation of thinking machines. All the authors are researchers actively developing AGI projects, thus distinguishing the book from much of the theoretical cognitive science and AI literature, which is generally quite divorced from practical AGI system building issues. And the discussions are presented in a way that makes the problems and proposed solutions understandable to a wide readership of non-specialists, providing a distinction from the journal and conference-proceedings literature. The book will benefit AGI researchers and students by giving them a solid orientation in the conceptual foundations of the field (which is not currently available anywhere); and it would benefit researchers in allied fields by giving them a high-level view of the current state of thinking in the AGI field. Furthermore, by addressing key topics in the field in a coherent way, the collection as a whole may play an important role in guiding future research in both theoretical and practical AGI, and in linking AGI research with work in allied disciplines

Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence, Used [Hardcover]

10. Science Observed [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Jeremy Bernstein's writings on science and scientists have charmed and instructed thousands of readers. Now, Bernstein takes the reader on a guided tour of the scientific imagination in all its myriad forms. The result is an exhilarating book that provides us with a rare look at the inner workings of the scientific mind in action. Thus, in his brilliant New Yorker profile of Marvin Minsky, Bernstein gives us not only a clear understanding of the great man's work on computers, but also a notion of the playfulness of the scientific imagination. Whether discussing Einstein or film director Stanley Kubrick, nuclear fusion or scientific cranks, Bernstein offers a delightful mixture of wit, science, and personalities.

Science Observed, Used [Hardcover]