Request Ideas for LISP companion book for Russell & Norvig

[Arthur T. Murray]

Gary Livingston <ga...@bert.cs.pitt.edu> writes on 20 Dec 2002:
>
> Gang,
>
> I will be teaching AI in the spring using the Russell & Norvig text,

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0137903952

> which will be great for teaching AI concepts,

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0595259227

> but I'd also like to teach them LISP,
> which is not used in Russell & Norvig
> (or maybe I missed it somehow).
>
> Is there a good indroductory LISP book which would make
> a good "companion" book to an AI course?

http://mind.sourceforge.net/lisp.html -- combined with "AI4U" from
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595259227

> I.e., demonstrate the implementation of many AI concepts and
> have problems that would investigate those concepts using LISP.
>
AIMA + AI4U = GOFAI

> Thanks,
>
> Gary Livingston
>
> ga...@cs.uml.edu
>

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[Oleg]

Arthur T. Murray wrote:

> Gary Livingston <ga...@bert.cs.pitt.edu> writes on 20 Dec 2002:
>>
>> Gang,
>>
>> I will be teaching AI in the spring using the Russell & Norvig text,
>
>
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0137903952
>
>> which will be great for teaching AI concepts,
>
>
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0595259227
>
>> but I'd also like to teach them LISP,
>> which is not used in Russell & Norvig
>> (or maybe I missed it somehow).
>>
>> Is there a good indroductory LISP book which would make
>> a good "companion" book to an AI course?
>
> http://mind.sourceforge.net/lisp.html -- combined with "AI4U" from
> http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595259227
>
>> I.e., demonstrate the implementation of many AI concepts and
>> have problems that would investigate those concepts using LISP.
>>
> AIMA + AI4U = GOFAI
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary Livingston
>>
>> ga...@cs.uml.edu
>>

I agree wholeheartedly. ASCII diagrams, pages left intentionally blank,
collections of USENET acronyms and manuals for nonexistent software
combined in one succinct tome entitled AI4U make a great teaching tool!

Oleg

[Arthur T. Murray]

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"

[faust]

Oleg <oleg_i...@myrealbox.com> , emitted these fragments:

>> http://mind.sourceforge.net/lisp.html -- combined with "AI4U" from
>> http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595259227

Isnt that one of those vanity publishers ?

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[Arthur T. Murray]

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on the illustrious publication of their second edition
and we recommend AI4U as a companion AI experimentation manual.

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while AI4U, newly published in November of 2002, introduces an
abstract AI theory of mind and its implementation in primitive
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In co-operation with the senior AIMA textbook, AI4U is a junior
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