China’s Artificial Intelligence Innovation: A Top‐Down National Command Approach?

Artificial Intelligence— A Modern Approach -- A Review

Within the past three years, several new AI textbooks have been published, all written by well-known researchers (Dean, Allen, and Aloiminos 1995; Russell and Norvig 1995; Shoham 1994; Ginsberg 1993). Thus, it is not surprising that the authors of each of these textbooks have sought a way to distinguish their own book from the rest. The hook for Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig's new textbook, A...

A Call for Artificial Intelligence Tools to Support Manufacturing Innovation

We are in the midst of a renewed interest in manufacturing. Developed economies in the West are increasingly concerned about the decline in manufacturing in their countries, and have linked that decline to high unemployment and low economic growth. In simple terms, they have come to the realization that they have to make things to make it in the 21 st century. They also realize that old forms o...

The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

early years. By all accounts, the conference succeeded in reaching that goal. Our efforts to broaden the conference while retaining its high quality got off to a rousing start with a record number of 803 submissions to the technical program. This was an 80 percent increase in submissions from recent years. We had submissions from 40 countries, with 48 percent of the submitted papers from outsid...

Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based Approach

To be considered exceptional, a textbook must satisfy three basic requirements. First, it must be authoritative, written by one with a broad range of experience in, and knowledge of, a subject. Second, it must effectively communicate to the reader, in the same manner in which a course instructor must be capable of imparting knowledge to students in a classroom. Third, it must stimulate the read...

Artificial intelligence - a modern approach, 2nd Edition