Book Reviews

It is written with great intelligence and insight and can benefit a wide audience from advanced undergraduates to seasoned researchers. It is a book that should be in the permanent collection of every AI aficionado because it is such a rich source of ideas and examples. It is not a full-blown AI text; it does not depend on the reader having any previous knowledge of AI but does assume some basic knowledge of Lisp. I have used this book with great success as a supplement in an introductory graduate AI course, the text in a graduate AI course focusing on techniques, and a resource in my research group. The sheer amount of material is impressive, including symbolic mathematics, logic programming, natural language, expert systems, games, and more.