Artificial Intelligence Illuminated

Features & Benefits

The most current text available, this book includes material on the most current methodologies and applications, illustrated with modern examples and problems. 

Presents material in a clear, student-friendly manner. The book relates key concepts to real world processes and methods, and explains relationships between AI techniques and mechanisms in nature or in the human brain.

Explores how Artificial Intelligence is applied in the real world, and gives pertinent and interesting examples to enable students to relate more readily to the material. For example, in the chapter on game playing, the book will include information about recent progress in chess playing computers and the latest score between humans and computers in this field.

Illustrated with pseudocode examples to help make the algorithms more accessible to today’s students. In all cases, no more than a basic knowledge of specific programming languages is assumed, but rather an understanding of the kinds of techniques used in programming languages.