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Artificial Intelligence

  • 1144 pages · about 19 hours
  • First published 1995
  • 39 editions

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1 About this book

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (AIMA) is a university textbook on artificial intelligence (AI), written by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig. It was first published in 1995, and the fourth edition of the book was released on 28 April 2020.

AIMA has been called "the most popular artificial intelligence textbook in the world", and is considered the standard text in the field of AI. As of 2023, it was being used at over 1500 universities worldwide, and it has over 59,000 citations on Google Scholar.

AIMA is intended for an undergraduate audience but can also be used for graduate-level studies with the suggestion of adding some of the primary sources listed in the extensive bibliography.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: artificial intelligence and a long read.

  • Computers
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Problem solving
  • Knowledge
  • Reasoning
  • Planning
  • Uncertainty (Information theory)
  • Learning

2 About Stuart J. Russell

Born 1962

Stuart Jonathan Russell (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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