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Expertise in Context

AAAI Press, 1997

Computerized "expert systems" are among the best-known applications of artificial intelligence. But what is expertise? The nature of knowledge and expertise, and their relation to context, is the focus of active discussion and controversy among psychologists, philosophers, computer scientists, and other cognitive scientists. The questions reach to the very foundations of cognitive theory. The twenty-three original essay in this volume ...

Android Epistemology

2 reviews

AAAI Press, 1995

Thought provoking but looking for a focus
This edited volume contains articles from the Workshop on Human & Machine Cognition in 1991. I got this book while preparing an upper-division interdisciplinary course on Models of Mind. I liked the overall slant of the collection better than many of the other volumes I considered (e.g., Mind Design II, Haugeland; Philosophy of AI, Boden (one of the contributors to this volume)). Although the ...

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language

1 review
Lucja M. Iwanska

AAAI Press, 2000

A box of chocolates
An excellent set of articles describing the advances in NLP and inferencing and knowledge rep based on NLP principles. A great companion to Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems by Pearl, and Natural Language Semantics by ALlan

Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence

AAAI Press, 1994

The increased sophistication and availability of massively parallel supercomputers has had two major impacts on research in artificial intelligence, both of which are addressed in this collection of exciting new AI theories and experiments. Massively parallel computers have been used to push forward research in traditional AI topics such as vision, search, and speech. More important, these machines allow AI to expand in exciting new ways by ...

Thinking about Android Epistemology (AAAI Press Copublications)

3 reviews

AAAI Press, 2006

Stimulating and Entertaining Collection of Reads
Android Epistemology, as defined in this book, seeks to answer fundamental questions about the nature of Artificially Intelligent machines. The theme of the book, "thinking about" machine intelligence, unfolds in a set of often-entertaining essays by philosophers, cognitive scientists and computer scientists. The topics explored here are quite diverse, and are typically presented in an informal, ...

Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions (AAAI Press Copublications)

AAAI Press, 2004

Data mining, or knowledge discovery, has become an indispensable technology for businesses and researchers in many fields. Drawing on work in such areas as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing, data mining extracts useful information from the large data sets now available to industry and science. This collection surveys the most recent advances in the field and charts directions for future ...

Software Agents

3 reviews

AAAI Press, 1997

Excellent Collection
This a really excellent collection of papers. Really well organized and includes writings from influential researchers in the field. It is the right book to start reading about agents, well fitted to serve as a basic reference

Computation, Causation, and Discovery

AAAI Press, 1999

In science, business, and policymaking?anywhere data are used in prediction?two sorts of problems requiring very different methods of analysis often arise. The first, problems of recognition and classification, concerns learning how to use some features of a system to accurately predict other features of that system. The second, problems of causal discovery, concerns learning how to predict those changes to some features of a system that will ...

New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI Press Copublications)

AAAI Press, 2004

Question answering systems, which provide natural language responses to natural language queries, are the subject of rapidly advancing research encompassing both academic study and commercial applications, the most well-known of which is the search engine Ask Jeeves. Question answering draws on different fields and technologies, including natural language processing, information retrieval, explanation generation, and human computer interaction. ...

Controversies in Neurological Surgery: Neurovascular Diseases (A Co-Publication of Thieme and the American ...
Michael Lawton, H. Hunt Batjer, ...

Thieme New York, 2006

This text provides insights into current trends and controversial issues regarding state-of-the-art techniques in neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, and endovascular surgery. The authors confront such questions as: Are unruptured aneurysms managed most effectively by neurosurgical clipping or endovascular coiling? Is surgery or endovascular coiling the best treatment for ruptured cerebral aneurysms of the anterior or ...

Computation and Intelligence: Collected Readings

AAAI Press, 1995

Computation and Intelligence brings together 29 readings in Artificial Intelligence that are particularly relevant to today's student/practitioner. With its helpful critique of the selections, extensive bibliography, and clear presentation of the material, Computation and Intelligence will be a useful adjunct to any course in AI as well as a handy reference for professionals in the field. The book is divided into five parts, each ...

Biorobotics

AAAI Press, 2001

Animal-like robots are playing an increasingly important role as a link between the worlds of biology and engineering. The new, multidisciplinary field of biorobotics provides tools for biologists studying animal behavior and testbeds for the study and evaluation of biological algorithms for potential engineering applications. This book focuses on the role of robots as tools for biologists. An animal is profoundly affected by the many ...

Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust
Maria M. Kovacs

A co-publication with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994

In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers and medical associations, radically altered ...

Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet

1 review

AAAI Press, 1998

Excellent Collection for Computer-Mediated Communications
This is an excellent book collection of articles on CMC. It's especially a great resource for historical research into the early days of the Internet and the web. Although some topics may seem somewhat dated, nevertheless they are still applicable to the present date in terms of the nature of network mediated communications. The main focus of the book collection is on textual communications. It ...

Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups

AAAI Press, 1998

The globalization of the economy, increasing number of transnational organizations, and rapid changes in robotics, information, and telecommunication technologies are just a few of the factors significantly altering organizational time scales, forms, complexity, and environments. Time scales have shrunk, new organizational forms are emerging, and organizational environments are expanding and mutating at unprecedented rates. Computational ...

Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition

2 reviews

AAAI Press, 1992

Pioneering investigations of musical behavior
Understanding Music with AI is an introduction to Cognitive Musicology, the term understood as a science of mental representations of music. The book introduces formal models for otherwise taken-for-granted musical activities such as composing, analyzing music, listening, performing music, etc. In contrast to present-day work with neural nets, theories introduced in the book test their models ...

Dynamics of Organizations: Computational Modeling and Organizational Theories

1 review

AAAI Press, 2001

An exciting future for organizational analysis!
Lomi and Larsen recruited an outstanding set of authors to explain and apply a new generation of agent-based computational models to the problem of organizational change. Using state-of-the-art simulation methods, with clear explanations and superior examples, the various chapters show how principles from genetic algorithms, neural networks, and cellular automata can be applied to the emergence, ...

Computers and Thought

2 reviews

AAAI Press, 1995

Waiting to Think
It looks like Alan Mathison Turing's suggestion stands the test of time: come up with a program that apes a child's mind and then put the computer through school. That may be what it takes to bring COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT together in the first real thinking machine. Proving theorems is good training in problem solving, which we learn along with verbal training, concept formulation, decision making ...

Folk Tales from Asia for Children Everywhere, Book 1 (Asian Copublication Programme Series One)

Weatherhill, 1975

A multi-volume collection of traditional folk tales from various Asian countries illustrated by native artists.

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