Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence by Nilsson, Nils J - 1971

New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good. 1971. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 0070465738 . Ex-Library Copy from the Xerox Corporation Library in the Palo Alto Research Center. This book is in Very Good condition, with library stamps to the endpapers and foredge of the text block along with several inked library notations. The text pages are clean and bright. "The goal of work in artificial intelligence is to build machines that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Thus, prominent topics in the field include automatic methods for solving problems, understansding and translating languages, proving theorems, and recognizing speech sounds and visiual objects. Although many of these tasks are exceedingly difficult, several computer programs have been written whose performance begins to match that of humans." Nils J. Nilsson, according to Wikipedia: is one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. " is one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence." and, " Although the basic idea of using logical reasoning to decide on actions is due to John McCarthy (McCarthy), Nilsson's group was the first to embody it in a complete agent, along the way inventing the A* search algorithm (Hart, Nilsson & Raphael 1968) and founding the field of automated temporal planning. In the latter pursuit, they invented the STRIPS planner (Fikes & Nilsson 1971), whose action representation is still the basis of many of today's planning algorithms. The subfield of automated temporal planning called classical planning is based on most of the assumptions built into STRIPS." .