The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements

Book Description

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that attempts to integrate advanced intelligence into computer systems.
This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of pioneers in the 18th century (and before) to the most successful works of today’s artificial intelligence engineers. . AI is becoming more and more part of everyone’s life. The technology is already embedded in facial recognition cameras, speech recognition software, internet search engines, and healthcare robots, among other applications. The book contains many diagrams and easy-to-understand descriptions of AI programs that will help the casual reader understand how these and other AI systems work. Its detailed (but unobtrusive) footnotes contain important source citations that will be very useful to academics and AI researchers.
This book promises to be the ultimate history of a field that has captivated the imaginations of scientists, philosophers, and writers for centuries.

Nils J. Nilsson was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. He is particularly known for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics.

Part I. Beginnings: 1. Dreams and dreamers
2. Clues
Part II. Early Explorations: 1950s and 1960s: 3. Gatherings
4. Pattern recognition
5. Early heuristic programs
6. Semantic representations
7. Natural language processing
8. 1960s infrastructure
Part III. Efflorescence: Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s: 9. Computer vision
10. ‘Hand-Eye’ research
11. Knowledge representation and reasoning
12. Mobile robots
13. Progress in natural language processing
14. Game playing
15. The dendral project
16. Conferences, books, and funding
Part IV. Applications and Specializations: 1970s to Early 1980s: 17. Speech recognition and understanding systems
18. Consulting systems
19. Understanding queries and signals
20. Progress in computer vision
21. Boomtimes
Part V. ‘New Generation’ Projects: 22. The Japanese create a stir
23. Darpa’s strategic computing program
Part VI. Entr’acte: 24. Speed bumps
25. Controversies and alternative paradigms
Part VII. The Growing Armamentarium: From the 1980s Onward: 26. Reasoning and representation
27. Other approaches to reasoning and representation
28. Bayesian networks
29. Machine learning
30. Natural languages and natural scenes
31. Intelligent system architectures
Part VIII. Modern AI: Today and Tomorrow: 32. Extraordinary achievements
33. Ubiquitous artificial intelligence
34. Smart tools
35. The quest continues.

Author(s): Nilsson, Nils J.

Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press, Year: 2013

ISBN: 9780511819346