Cindi's Artificial Intelligence Resource Page

Artificial Intelligence at the University of Utah

The Intro to AI Class (CS 5300/6300)

Miscellaneous Links

• AAAI's AI Topics page
• ACM Special interest group on AI (SIGART)
• Strategic Directions in AI (1996, online paper)
• ACM Special Issue on Uncertainty in AI
• AI Resources Page: Library of links to AI information
• Loebner Prize for limited Turing test.
• IBM's Deep Blue Page
• Misc recent AI news

Popular Books on AI

• Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  A classic, poetic, philosophical defense of AI.
• Machines Who Think by Pamela McCorduck.
  A good review of early AI history.
• The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
  A recent view by an AI entrepreneur that has content if you ignore all the hype and overly-optimistic trust that Moore's law will magically solve all of the major problems.
• Hal's Legacy : 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality
  An interesting collection of edited articles written to celebrate the fictional birthday of a famous intelligent computer who's true birthday must unfortunately be delayed, pending AI's inevitable progress.
• The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon
  AI as science by one of its founders.
• Models of My Life by Herbert Simon.
  An autobiography of one of AI's founders who's intellectual contributions also include fundamental contributions to economics (for which he won the Nobel prize), cognitive psychology, and computer science (such as co-inventing the linked list in the 1950's).
• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Alan Hodges.
  A biography of one of the founders of CS and originator of the Turing test.
• The Emperor's New Mind : Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics and Shadows of the Mind : A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness and The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose
  A completely bogus argument against AI by a hopelessly Platonic mathematician. The last book contains an appended article by Stephen Hawking (a colleague of Penrose's) who of course doesn't buy his bogus argument.
• The Mind's New Science : A History of the Cognitive Revolution by Howard Gardner
  A nice history of the development of cognitive science.
• How the Mind Works , The Language Instinct , and Words and Rules : The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
  Fun reading on lots of interesting issues in modern Cognitive Science and Linguistics if you don't take his exaggerated beliefs in nativism and evolutionary psychology too seriously.
• Bots : The Origin of New Species by Andrew Leonard
  A light, somewhat hyped book on on Internet agents, chatterbots, etc. with a few funny stories.