Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil, the inventor of the m…
Solving problems by heuristically guide, trial-and-error search in a space of possible solutions is a dominant theme in artificial-intelligence research, yet there is no single textbook devoted to explaining the underlying theoretical ideas of these search processes. This book …
During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it has come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of n…
"A visionary in the field of knowledge representation, John Sowa captures the current state of the art while introducing influential new ideas, such as his own concept of "frames" for representing knowledge - widely accepted by professionals and academics." "This definitive new …
