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From: uj...@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.publish.electronic.misc,misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Request Ideas for LISP companion book for Russell & Norvig
Date: 20 Dec 2002 10:07:26 -0800
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Summary: AIMA + AI4U = GOFAI
Keywords: GOFAI, good old-fashioned artificial intelligence
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Oleg Neizvestny wrote on Fri, 20 Dec 2002:

> [...] I agree wholeheartedly. ASCII diagrams,

http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/hci.html "Human-Computer Interaction"
uses an ASCII digram not only for Chapter 3 on the HCI but also for
the front cover, so that anybody walking by your desk or coffee table
will notice the intriguing brain-mind diagram and admire your genius.

> pages left intentionally blank,

http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=0595259227&page=1 must
start on a right-side page, so the previous page was left blank :-)

> collections of USENET acronyms

Neophyte AI programmers will come up to speed on Usenet by studying
http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=0595259227&page=fm13 

> and manuals for nonexistent software

http://mentifex.futureai.com/jsaimind.html -- Click on "Manual";
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/jsaimind.html -- "Programmer's"
http://www.seedai.e-mind.org/jsaimind.html -- Click "User manual"

> combined in one succinct tome entitled AI4U

AI4U joins the proud tradition of 4-letter AI textbooks as in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aima-talk/messages -- AIMA-Talk.

> make a great teaching tool!
>
> Oleg

Thank you, Oleg, and thank-you to all who buy the AI4U textbook.

Arthur T. Murray
-- 
http://mind.sourceforge.net/lisp.html -- Lisp for AI Textbook Software;
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0595259227 
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595259227 
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Mentifex/ "Spreading AI4U"