人工智能

Stuart Russell,was born in 1962 in Portsmouth,England.He received his B.A.with first-class hon-ours in physics from Oxford Undiversity in 1982,and his Ph,D.in computer science from Stanford in 1986.He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley,where he is a professor of computer science,director of the Center for Intelligent Systems,and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering.In 1990,he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation,and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award.He was a 1996Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor s Professor ship in 2000.In 1998,he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University He is a Fellow and former Executive Council member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.He has published over 100 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence.His other books include The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction and (with Eric Wefald)Do the Right Thing:Studies in Limited Rationality.

本书被全世界89个国家的900多所大学用作教材。 本书以详尽和丰富的资料，从理性智能体的角度，全面阐述了人工智能领域的核心内容，并深入介绍了各个主要的研究方向。全书分为8大部分：第一部分“人工智能”，第二部分“问题求解”，第三部分“知识与推理”，第四部分“规划”，第五部分“不确定知识与推理”，第六部分“学习”，第七部分“通信、感知与行动”，第八部分“结论”。本书既详细介绍了人工智能的基本概念、思想和算法，还描述了其各个研究方向最前沿的进展，同时收集整理了详实的历史文献与事件。另外，本书的配套网址 本书适合于不同层次和领域的研究人员及学生，是高等院校本科生和研究生人工智能课的首选教材，也是相关领域的科研与工程技术人员的重要参考书。