AI Application Programming


M. TIM JONES
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 Jones, M. Tim.   AI application programming / M. Tim Jones.        p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 

ISBN 1-58450-278-9 (pbk. w. CD-ROM : acid-free paper)


1. Artificial intelligence ”Data processing. 2. Artificial intelligence ”Mathematical models. I. Title.

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This book is dedicated to my wife Jill and my kids Megan, Elise, and Marc. Their patience, support, and encouragement made this book possible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M. Tim Jones has been devloping software since 1986. He has designed prototype AI systems using genetic algorithms for satellite attitude determination and mobile agents for distributed asset tracking. Mr. Jones has also published articles on embedded systems, network protocols, and AI for Dr. Dobb's Journal, Emedded Systems Programming and Embedded Linux Journal . He resides in Longmont, CO, where he works as a Senior Principal Software Engineer.

Acknowledgments

This book owes much to many people. While I wrote the software for this book, the algorithms were created and evolved by a large group of researchers and practitioners . These include (in no particular order) Alan Turing, John McCarthy, Arthur Samuel, N. Metropolis, Gail Carpenter, Stephen Grossberg, Marco Dorigo, David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, John Von Neumann, Donald Hebbs, Teuvo Kohonen, John Hopfield, Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert, John Holland, John Koza, Thomas Back, Bruce MacLennan, Patrick Winston, Charles Forgy, Lotfi Zadeh, Rodney Brooks, Andrei Markov, James Baker, Doug Lenat, Claud Shannon, and Alan Kay. Thanks also to Dan Klein for helpful reviews on the early revisions of this book.




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