CS5201 Intelligent Systems Reading Lists

Hardcopy Books

many of these books can be found on q+1 of the Boole library

AI textbooks

Russell and Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2003.

Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann 1998.

Ginsberg, Essentials of Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann 1993.

Stefik, Introduction to Knowledge Systems, Morgan Kaufmann 1995.

Rich and Knight, Artificial Intelligennce, 2nd ed., 1990.

and of more specialized interest...

Shapiro and Eckroth (eds.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley.

Jackson, Introduction to expert systems, 2nd ed., Addison Wesley 1990.

Duda, Hart and Stork, Pattern Classification (2nd ed.), 2000.

Michalski, Carbonell and Mitchell, Machine learning : an Artificial Intelligence approach, 1986.

Neural Computing

ANN Texts
  • Fausett, L., Fundamentals of Neural Networks: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, Prentice Hall International Edition, 1994.
  • Smith, M., Neural Networks for Statistical Modeling, Boston: International Thomson Computer Press, 1996.
  • Masters, Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++, Academic Press, 1993.
  • Hertz, J., Krogh, A., and Palmer, R., Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation, Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1991.

    Basic Introduction:

  • Caudill, M. and Butler, C., Naturally Intelligent Systems, MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990.
  • Aleksander and Morton, An introduction to neural computing, Chapman and Hall, 1990.
  • Wasserman, Neural computing :theory and practice, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989.

    A more theoretical treatment can be found in the following:

  • Bishop, C.M., Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Gurney, K., An Introduction to Neural Networks, London: Routledge, 1997.
  • Ripley, B.D., Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Haykin, S. (1999) Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1999.

    of hsitorical interest

  • Kohonen, Associative memory :a system-theoretical approach, Springer, 1977.
  • Kohonen, Self-organization and associative memory, Springer, 1984.
  • Hecht-Nielsen, Neurocomputing, Addison-Wesley, 1989.

    General/ Philosophical

    Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, 2000.

    Brooks, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, 2002.

    Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 1992.

    Minsky, The Society of Mind, 1988.

    Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd ed.), 1996.

    Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness, 1997.

    Winograd and Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition, 1987.

    Of Historical Interest

    Semantic information processing, Minsky, ed., MIT 1968.

    Barr and Feigenbaum, The handbook of artificial intelligence, Radio Society of Great Britain 1981.

    Burks (ed), Essays on cellular automata, University of Illinois Press 1970.

    Heims, The cybernetics group, MIT 1991.

    Winston, Artificial intelligence at MIT, MIT 1990.