Jul 22 2007
Intro to AI
I’ve been doing a bit of planning for my Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class, to be taught this fall. For those who haven’t yet discovered, MIT offers a wonderful resource in their MIT OpenCourseWare. Basically they have opened up many of their courses materials for open and free use. A great resource for educators and self-learners alike, as they state on the site.
Anyway, I think I will be using one of my favorite texts, and the one I used as a student for my AI course (though it has been updated in a second edition), Russel and Norvig’s Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. In my opinion, a very good introduction to the basics, with as the title suggests a modern viewpoint cognizant of the successes, failures, strengths and weaknesses of the standard techniques and algorithms of AI.