Ai And Cognitive Science 90

Download Ai And Cognitive Science 90 full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Ai And Cognitive Science 90 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

AI and Cognitive Science ’90

Author : Michael F. McTear
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447135423
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science ’90 by : Michael F. McTear

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science ’90 written by Michael F. McTear and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the edited versions of papers presented at the 3rd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, which was held at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland on 20-21 September 1990. The main aims of this annual conference are to promote AI research in Ireland, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas amongst the different disciplines concerned with the study of cognition, and to provide an opportunity for industry to see what research is being carried out in Ireland and how they might benefit from the results of this research. Although most of the partiCipants at the conference came from universities and companies within Ireland, a positive feature of the conference was the extent of interest shown outside of Ireland, resulting in partiCipants from USA, Canada, Austria, and England. The keynote speakers were Professor David Chin, University of Hawaii, and Professor Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, and the topics included machine learning, AI tools and methods, expert systems, speech, vision, natural language, reasoning with uncertain information, and explanation. The sponsors of the conference were Digital Equipment Co (Galway) and the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland.

AI and Cognitive Science '90

Author : Michael McTear
Publisher : Springer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9780387196534
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (965 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science '90 by : Michael McTear

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science '90 written by Michael McTear and published by Springer Verlag. This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AI and Cognitive Science '90

Author : Norman Creaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (797 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science '90 by : Norman Creaney

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science '90 written by Norman Creaney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artificial Intelligence

Author : Ronald Chrisley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415193320
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Artificial Intelligence by : Ronald Chrisley

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence written by Ronald Chrisley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

COGNITIVA 90

Author : Teuvo Kohonen
Publisher : North Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis COGNITIVA 90 by : Teuvo Kohonen

Download or read book COGNITIVA 90 written by Teuvo Kohonen and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1991 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader of this book will find contributions on a large number of topics, which are addressed either from the Artificial Intelligence or the Neural Networks or the Cognitive Science paradigm. It is through the confrontation of these various contributions that this book offers the reader the most original - and stimulating - perspective. The invited lectures, by outstanding experts, provide global, integrated overviews of their respective domains. The contributed papers offer focused presentations of on-going research work.

AI and Cognitive Science ’91

Author : Humphrey Sorensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447135628
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science ’91 by : Humphrey Sorensen

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science ’91 written by Humphrey Sorensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the edited versions of papers presented at the Fourth Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'91), which was held at University College, Cork, Ireland on 19-20 September 1991. The main aims of this annual conference series are to promote AI research in Ireland, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas amongst different disciplines concerned with the study of cognition, and to provide an opportunity for industry to see what research is being carried out in Ireland and how it might benefit from the results of this research. While most of the participants at the conference came from universities and companies within Ireland, a positive feature was the interest shown from outside the country, resulting in participants from Britain, USA and Italy. The keynote speaker was Professor James A. Bowen, North Carolina State University, who spoke on future trends in knowledge representation. The topics covered in the presented papers included fundamental approaches to AI, natural language, knowledge representation, information retrieval, deduction, epistemics and vision. The sponsors of the conference were Digital Equipment Co. (Galway) and Eolas, the Irish Science and Technology Board. March 1992 Humphrey Sorensen Contents Section 1: Foundations and Methodologies Toward a New Foundation for Cognitive Science S. 6 Nuallain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Towards an Adequate Cognitive Model of Analogical Mapping M. T. Keane and S. Duff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 HOST: A HOlistic System Theory G. Hartnett and H. Sorensen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

AI and Cognitive Science ’89

Author : Alan Smeaton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447131649
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science ’89 by : Alan Smeaton

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science ’89 written by Alan Smeaton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the texts of papers presented at the Second Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, held at Dublin City University in September 1989. This Conference has now become the major annual forum in Ireland for the presentation and discussion of current research work in the multi-disciplinary area of Artificial Intelligence. Papers in this volume have been divided into seven sections which vary in their subject matter. Image processing, human-computer interaction, planning, applications and theory of expert systems, learn ing, speech, and natural language processing and semantics repre sents as broad a spectrum of AI and AI-related topics as can be found in current AI research. This harmonises quite well with the aims and scope of the AICS'89 conference which were to provide a forum for industry and academic research to discuss AI and AI-related topics and we were delighted that such a broad coverage of topics was achieved. Despite the broad nature, however, none of the papers are primarily review articles; each paper presents new research results within its own specific area.

AI and Cognitive Science ’92

Author : Kevin Ryan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447132076
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science ’92 by : Kevin Ryan

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science ’92 written by Kevin Ryan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Irish Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science have become the major forum in Ireland for the discussion of various aspects of artificial intelligence. Their aim is to provide a forum where researchers can present their current work, and where industrial and commercial users can relate this work to their own practical needs and experiences. Although the emphasis of the conferences is on Irish research, there are also important contributions from Europe, Australia, Canada, and the USA. This volume is based on the proceedings of the Fifth Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'92), which was held at the University of Limerick, Ireland, from 10-11 September 1992. The conference was divided into 6 sessions, covering knowledge representation, cognitive foundations, natural language 1 and 2, learning and expert systems, and nov§ el aspects of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Because of the high number of papers submitted to the conference, a poster session was run in addition to the plenary sessions. Each paper presented at the poster session is represented in this volume by a four page abstract. Among the specific topics covered in this volume are: a model-based theory of conceptual combination; the nature and development of reasoning strategies; word recognition as a parsing problem; a knowledge-based autonomous vehicle system for emergency management support; the construction and use of scope neutral discourse entities; computer-based iconic communication; and exceptions in multiple inheritance systems. AI and Cognitive Science '92 provides a comprehensive record of current research into this important field. It will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and postgraduate students in a variety of disciplines related to artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

Author : M.H. Bickhard
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444825207
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (448 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science by : M.H. Bickhard

Download or read book Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science written by M.H. Bickhard and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on a conceptual flaw in contemporary artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many people have discovered diverse manifestations and facets of this flaw, but the central conceptual impasse is at best only partially perceived. Its consequences, nevertheless, visit themselves as distortions and failures of multiple research projects - and make impossible the ultimate aspirations of the fields. The impasse concerns a presupposition concerning the nature of representation - that all representation has the nature of encodings: encodingism. Encodings certainly exist, but encodingism is at root logically incoherent; any programmatic research predicted on it is doomed too distortion and ultimate failure. The impasse and its consequences - and steps away from that impasse - are explored in a large number of projects and approaches. These include SOAR, CYC, PDP, situated cognition, subsumption architecture robotics, and the frame problems - a general survey of the current research in AI and Cognitive Science emerges. Interactivism, an alternative model of representation, is proposed and examined.

Artificial Intelligence

Author : D. Sleeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000734773
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Artificial Intelligence by : D. Sleeman

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence written by D. Sleeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI. This volume was an attempt primarily to inform fellow AI workers of recent European work in AI. It was hoped that researchers in ‘sister’ disciplines, such as computer science and linguistics would gain a deeper understanding of the assumptions, techniques and tools of contemporary AI.

The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration

Author : Steven S. Gouveia
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622739574
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration by : Steven S. Gouveia

Download or read book The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration written by Steven S. Gouveia and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With worldwide spending estimates of over $97 billion by 2023, it is no surprise that Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is one of the hottest topics at present in both the private and public spheres. Comprising of vital contributions from the most influential researchers in the field, including Daniel Dennett, Roman V. Yampolskiy, Frederic Gilbert, Stevan Harnad, David Pearce, Natasha Vita-More, Vernon Vinge and Ben Goertzel, ‘The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration’ discusses a variety of topics ranging from the various ethical issues associated with A.I. based technologies in terms of morality and law to subjects related to artificial consciousness, artistic creativity and intelligence. The volume is organized as follows: Section I is dedicated to reflections on the Intelligence of A.I., with chapters by Soenke Ziesche and Roman V. Yampolskiy, Stevan Harnad, Daniel Dennett and David Pearce. Next, Section II discusses the relationship between consciousness, simulation and artificial intelligence, with chapters by Gabriel Axel Montes and Ben Goertzel, Cody Turner, Nicole Hall and Steven S. Gouveia. Section III, dedicated to aesthetical creativity and language in artificial intelligence, includes chapters by Caterina Moruzzi, René Mogensen, Mariana Chinellato Ferreira and Kulvinder Panesar. The subsequent Section IV is on the Ethics of the Bionic Brain with the participation of Peter A. DePergola II, Tomislav Miletić and Frederic Gilbert, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Txetxu Ausin, Ricardo M. Ferrer and Stephen Rainey and Natasha Vita-More. Finally, Section V follows on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with chapters by Federico Pistono and Roman V. Yamploskiy, Hasse Hämäläinen, Vernon Vinge and Eray Özkural. The Age of Artificial Intelligence is imminent, if not here already. We should ensure that we invest in the right people and the right ideas to create the best possible solutions to the problems of the present and prepare for those of the future. This edited volume will be of particular interest to researchers in the field of A.I. as well of those in Cognitive Science (Philosophy of the Mind, Neuroscience, and Linguistics), Aesthetics and Arts, Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy / Law. Students studying the aforementioned topics can also benefit from its contents.

Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds

Author : Antonio Lieto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315460513
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds by : Antonio Lieto

Download or read book Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds written by Antonio Lieto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds explains the crucial role that human cognition research plays in the design and realization of artificial intelligence systems, illustrating the steps necessary for the design of artificial models of cognition. It bridges the gap between the theoretical, experimental, and technological issues addressed in the context of AI of cognitive inspiration and computational cognitive science. Beginning with an overview of the historical, methodological, and technical issues in the field of cognitively inspired artificial intelligence, Lieto illustrates how the cognitive design approach has an important role to play in the development of intelligent AI technologies and plausible computational models of cognition. Introducing a unique perspective that draws upon Cybernetics and early AI principles, Lieto emphasizes the need for an equivalence between cognitive processes and implemented AI procedures, in order to realize biologically and cognitively inspired artificial minds. He also introduces the Minimal Cognitive Grid, a pragmatic method to rank the different degrees of biological and cognitive accuracy of artificial systems in order to project and predict their explanatory power with respect to the natural systems taken as a source of inspiration. Providing a comprehensive overview of cognitive design principles in constructing artificial minds, this text will be essential reading for students and researchers of artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

AI and Cognitive Science ’91

Author : Humphrey Sorensen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540197850
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (978 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI and Cognitive Science ’91 by : Humphrey Sorensen

Download or read book AI and Cognitive Science ’91 written by Humphrey Sorensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-12-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the edited versions of papers presented at the Fourth Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'91), which was held at University College, Cork, Ireland on 19-20 September 1991. The main aims of this annual conference series are to promote AI research in Ireland, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas amongst different disciplines concerned with the study of cognition, and to provide an opportunity for industry to see what research is being carried out in Ireland and how it might benefit from the results of this research. While most of the participants at the conference came from universities and companies within Ireland, a positive feature was the interest shown from outside the country, resulting in participants from Britain, USA and Italy. The keynote speaker was Professor James A. Bowen, North Carolina State University, who spoke on future trends in knowledge representation. The topics covered in the presented papers included fundamental approaches to AI, natural language, knowledge representation, information retrieval, deduction, epistemics and vision. The sponsors of the conference were Digital Equipment Co. (Galway) and Eolas, the Irish Science and Technology Board. March 1992 Humphrey Sorensen Contents Section 1: Foundations and Methodologies Toward a New Foundation for Cognitive Science S. 6 Nuallain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Towards an Adequate Cognitive Model of Analogical Mapping M. T. Keane and S. Duff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 HOST: A HOlistic System Theory G. Hartnett and H. Sorensen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ethical Artificial Intelligence from Popular to Cognitive Science

Author : Jordan Richard Schoenherr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000599086
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ethical Artificial Intelligence from Popular to Cognitive Science by : Jordan Richard Schoenherr

Download or read book Ethical Artificial Intelligence from Popular to Cognitive Science written by Jordan Richard Schoenherr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the ethics of 'artificial intelligence' – autonomous, intelligent, (and connected) systems, or AISs, applying principles of social cognition to understand the social and ethical issues associated with the creation, adoption, and implementation of AISs. As humans become entangled in sociotechnical systems defined by human and artificial agents, there is a pressing need to understand how trust is created, used, and abused. Compounding the difficulty in answering these questions, stakeholders directly or indirectly affected by these systems differ in their motivations, understanding, and values. This volume provides a comprehensive resource to help stakeholders understand ethical issues of designing and implementing AISs using an ethical sensemaking approach. Starting with the general technical affordances of AIS, Dr. Jordan Richard Schoenherr considers the features of system design relating data integrity, selection and interpretation of algorithms, and the evolution processes that drive AISs innovation as a sociotechnological system. The poles of technophobia (algorithmic aversion) and technophilia (algorithmic preference) in the public perception of AISs are then described and considered against existing evidence, including issues ranging from the displacement and re-education needs of the human workforce, the impact of use of technology on interpersonal accord, and surveillance and cybersecurity. Ethical frameworks that provide tools for evaluating the values and outcomes of AISs are then reviewed, and how they can be aligned with ethical sensemaking processes identified by psychological science is explored. Finally, these disparate threads are brought together in a design framework. Also including sections on policies and guideline, gaming and social media, and Eastern philosophical frameworks, this is fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, computer science, philosophy, and related areas, as well as professionals such as policy makers and those working with AI systems.

The Geometry of Uncertainty

Author : Fabio Cuzzolin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030631532
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Geometry of Uncertainty by : Fabio Cuzzolin

Download or read book The Geometry of Uncertainty written by Fabio Cuzzolin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal aim of this book is to introduce to the widest possible audience an original view of belief calculus and uncertainty theory. In this geometric approach to uncertainty, uncertainty measures can be seen as points of a suitably complex geometric space, and manipulated in that space, for example, combined or conditioned. In the chapters in Part I, Theories of Uncertainty, the author offers an extensive recapitulation of the state of the art in the mathematics of uncertainty. This part of the book contains the most comprehensive summary to date of the whole of belief theory, with Chap. 4 outlining for the first time, and in a logical order, all the steps of the reasoning chain associated with modelling uncertainty using belief functions, in an attempt to provide a self-contained manual for the working scientist. In addition, the book proposes in Chap. 5 what is possibly the most detailed compendium available of all theories of uncertainty. Part II, The Geometry of Uncertainty, is the core of this book, as it introduces the author’s own geometric approach to uncertainty theory, starting with the geometry of belief functions: Chap. 7 studies the geometry of the space of belief functions, or belief space, both in terms of a simplex and in terms of its recursive bundle structure; Chap. 8 extends the analysis to Dempster’s rule of combination, introducing the notion of a conditional subspace and outlining a simple geometric construction for Dempster’s sum; Chap. 9 delves into the combinatorial properties of plausibility and commonality functions, as equivalent representations of the evidence carried by a belief function; then Chap. 10 starts extending the applicability of the geometric approach to other uncertainty measures, focusing in particular on possibility measures (consonant belief functions) and the related notion of a consistent belief function. The chapters in Part III, Geometric Interplays, are concerned with the interplay of uncertainty measures of different kinds, and the geometry of their relationship, with a particular focus on the approximation problem. Part IV, Geometric Reasoning, examines the application of the geometric approach to the various elements of the reasoning chain illustrated in Chap. 4, in particular conditioning and decision making. Part V concludes the book by outlining a future, complete statistical theory of random sets, future extensions of the geometric approach, and identifying high-impact applications to climate change, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The book is suitable for researchers in artificial intelligence, statistics, and applied science engaged with theories of uncertainty. The book is supported with the most comprehensive bibliography on belief and uncertainty theory.

Program of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 25-28 July 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Author : Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805809381
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Program of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 25-28 July 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts by : Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference

Download or read book Program of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 25-28 July 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts written by Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Artificial Intelligence

Author : Alan Garnham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351337866
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Artificial Intelligence by : Alan Garnham

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence written by Alan Garnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, this book provides a stimulating introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) - the science of thinking machines. After a general introduction to AI, including its history, tools, research methods, and its relation to psychology, Garnham gives an account of AI research in five major areas: knowledge representation, vision, thinking and reasoning, language, and learning. He then describes the more important applications of AI and discusses the broader philosophical issues raised by the possibility of thinking machines. In the final chapter, he speculates about future research in AI, and more generally in cognitive science. Suitable for psychology students, the book also provides useful background reading for courses on vision, thinking and reasoning, language and learning.