The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence A Sourcebook [Paperback]

This outstanding collection is designed to address the fundamental issues and principles underlying the task of Artificial Intelligence.Designed to address the fundamental issues or principles underlying artificial intelligence, the editors have selected not only papers recognized as classics but many commissioned from different perspectives as well.Designed to address the fundamental issues or principles underlying artificial intelligence, the editors have selected not only papers recognized as classics but many commissioned from different perspectives as well.Addressing the fundamental issues or principles underlying the task of Artificial Intelligence, the editors have selected not only papers now recognized as classics but also many specially commissioned papers that together examine the methodological and theoretical foundations of the discipline from a wide variety of perspectives: computer science and software engineering, cognitive psychology, philosophy and formal logic, and linguistics. Carefully planned and structured, the volume as a whole tackles many of the contentious questions of immediate concern to AI researchers and interested observers. The comprehensiveness of this collection is further enhanced by the full, annotated bibliography.List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. What is AI anyway? Roger C. Schank; 2. What kind of information processing is intelligence? B. Chandrasekaran; Part II. The Formal Foundations of AI: 3. Non-monotonic reasoning versus logic programming: a new perspective Teodor C. Przymusinski; 4. Prolegomena to a theory of mechanized formal reasoning Richard W. Weyhrauch; Part III. Levels of Theory: 5. AI: a personal view David Marr; 6. Has AI helped psychology? Margaret A. Boden; 7. What's in an AI program? Derek Partridge; Part IV. Programs and Theories: 8. One smal head: models and theories Yorick Wilks; 9. The nature of AI principles Alan Bundy and Stellan Ohlsson; 10. What's in an AI proló`