GOOD: The book's cover, spine, and dust jacket are in excellent condition; however, the pages are beginning to tan. The book's pages are clean (no writing or highlighting).
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In the Preface the authors indicate they wrote this book because none of the existing text books cover the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a suitable manner. Their goal was to ensure the book included three primary things:
It had to include those aspects if the field that they felt would prove to be enduring.
It should present AI as a coherent body of ideas and methods, drawing on the work of the last twenty years, but translating it into a more uniform set of concepts, favoring clarity over journalistic accuracy.
It should acquaint the student not only with the classic programs in the field, but the underlying theory as well: mathematical logic for knowledge representation and inference, linguistics for language comprehension, etc.
