Book(s) for EEN537 Spring 2000

The book is very strongly recommended. As always, I will not be basing the classes on the book, but the book does give a good background and references for all the important things we are doing. Even more importantly, it has chapters on Prolog and Lisp. You will have to learn to use at least one of those languages, and I am not going to devote weeks and weeks of class time to them. Unless you already know Prolog and/or Lisp reasonably well, you will need some kind of reference for them at least. Other references are not impossible to find, but our book is quite useful in its own right, so I would definitely get it if I were in your position.

          Artificial Intelligence (third edition)
          "structures and strategies for complex problem solving" (subtitle)
          George F Luger and William A Stubblefield
          Addison Wesley (pub.) 1997-1998.
          ISBN 0-805-31196-3

Don't let anyone trick you into getting an older edition. The second edition (1993, gold coloured) is almost sort-of OK. The first edition (1989, silver coloured) is not. Ours, the third edition is blue, and has been improved quite a bit.