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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3e offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. Number one in its field, this textbook is ideal for one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence.

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Stuart Russell was born in 1962 in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith–Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award. He was a 1996 Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor’s Professorship in 2000. In 1998, he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University. He is a Fellow and former Executive Council member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 100 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. His other books include The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction and (with Eric Wefald) Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality.

Peter Norvig is currently Director of Research at Google, Inc., and was the director responsible for the core Web search algorithms from 2002 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. Previously, he was head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw NASA’s research and development in artificial intelligence and robotics, and chief scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet information extraction services. He received a B.S. in applied mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He received the Distinguished Alumni and Engineering Innovation awards from Berkeley and the Exceptional Achievement Medal from NASA. He has been a professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at Berkeley. His other books are Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp and Verbmobil: A Translation System for Faceto-Face Dialog and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 3rd edition (December 1, 2009)
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136042597
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136042594
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    Stuart Russell is a professor of Computer Science and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford and the vice-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on AI and Robotics. His work for the UN building a new global seismic monitoring system for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has been recognized by the Feigenbaum Prize of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He has been an invited speaker at TED, the World Economic Forum, and the Nobel Dialogues in Stockholm and Tokyo. He is the author (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the number one bestselling textbook in AI which is used in over 1,400 universities in 128 countries. He was born in England and lives in Berkeley and Paris.

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    I live in Palo Alto, CA with my wife and two children. I am currently the Director of Research for Google, and I am teaching an Intro AI class at Stanford and online for the world. You can buy some of my books here at Amazon.

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Great material, but there are issues with printing
The material of the book itself is great, format of printing is also great as a working textbook. It has wide outlines where one can make remarks by the pen. Also there are new definitions on the outline that boosts search experience. The one drawback I have found is that there are pages (at least I have found one already) that is printed badly: the page is squeezed by the printer (I attach a photo). It is not yet a huge problem, because in my case it is at least readable and I am not going to return the book because of that, but quality control should be better.
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Ashwin Kapur
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book: Horrendous Kindle Conversion
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2011
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This is the best introductory review to Artificial Intelligence on the market. It's very well written and organized. There are other books that are better for focusing on one particular aspect of AI, but as a general book this is the best I've seen. If you are looking for a really good introductory textbook to AI that does not completely dumb things down, buy this book.

Most of the negative comments about this book come from people stating that it's not a big enough update from the prior edition. While it's true that the entire field of AI has not been completely updated since the last edition, it's also not the case that this book comes out with new editions with the frequency of some Calculus or Economics textbooks where new editions seem to come out purely to ensure students can't buy a used book for the course. The updates are substantial. Whether the new edition gives you enough extra to want to buy it if you own the old edition is a decision only you can make for yourself after spending some time at the website for the book aima.cs.uberkeley.edu.

The Kindle conversion of this book is absolutely horrendous. I prefer to buy electronic copies of books if possible so I don't have to carry a heavy hard copy around since I often read while commuting. I would not recommend that for this book, even though at a 1000+ textbook sized pages, it is a pretty substantial book. Fortunately a friend of mine had bought a Kindle copy of the book and I was able to see how bad it was and I bought the hard copy.

I recently got an email telling me Amazon was sending out an updated version of the Kindle version of Steve Job's biography because the conversion hadn't been done properly. They really need to do that for this book. Once done it may be a good idea to state on the website that the Kindle conversion has been fixed.
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Lioncub
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for anyone learning to program
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2010
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This is by far one of the best books i have ever read. For many years i have struggled with abtuse books on algorithms, programming languages and mathematics. This book is unlike anything i have read before. For the last 20 years, I as a lay person, who has not taken any university classes in AI and programming have had problems moving passed certain levels of complexity in my understanding. Simple things like decision tress and recursion had eluded me in the many books i read, seeming intangible in the areas where they would interface to the real world. Reading the explanations in this book i have finally got it. These authors through scenarios, explanations and code (replicated in many languages on the companion website) explain decision based structures and there use in agent design ,assuming very little along the way, outside of an elementary understanding of programming and logic, thus not losing me the reader. They gave me the building blocks and showed me how and why i would want to assemble them.
The code in this book is both beautiful, elegant and succinct all at the same time. The hours of exploration and learning i got from these samples alone were worth the price of the book.
If you are learning to program -- Read this book.
If you interested in decision and value based reasoning -- Read this book.
This is not a short book, but it is well worth the time investment. I plan on having it done within the year. I have learned so much about what i realize i knew so little of before, but I am so much more capable now than i ever was before, and that is because of this book.
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copperzinc
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Supplementary Material, Some Minor Kindle Issues
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2011
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This review is organized into two parts. The first part gives a general overview of the textbook and my thoughts about the content, while the second part gives a summary of the problems I've encountered while reading the Kindle version.

This book was made by multiple authors. Fortunately, the book's definitions and summaries are generally coherent. It has a through coverage on the history of AI, the definitions (those that are controversial have been noted as such), and provides psuedocode of many algorithms. Similar to other textbooks on this topic, it does not provide run-throughs of those algorithms.
The organizations of the book can be improved. I have some problems with the way they organized the material on the second part of the book (II: Problem Solving). Chapter 3 is named "Solving Problems by Searching", but I didn't realize all they did was on classical searches in Chapter 3 until I read Chapter 4. They could have explained why uniform-cost search is uninformed search even though it has a cost function better than they did in the textbook. A better naming scheme for those chapters would be "Ch3: Global Search ", "Ch4: Local Search/... (I would suggest breaking Chapter 4 and put it into different places.)".

I bought the Kindle version, and it had many formatting problems. Most of them are minor (such as missing a "space" between two words, images appearing in different locations, image sizes too small, etc.) However, I had caught one specific error in the second part of the book (somewhere between chapter 3-5) where the fact is exactly the opposite than the one written (forgot to add the negation?) I should have marked and noted it so I can write down which error it was in the review but I was too lazy...

But it's a good purchase overall!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Libro básico y fundamental
Reviewed in Spain on March 19, 2022
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Éste es el libro al que regreso constantemente cuando necesito cubrir los aspectos más básicos y la historia de la Inteligencia Artificial. No cubre tanto el "machine learning" que ha cobrado más relevancia ahora, pero es fundamental para entender la evolución del campo. Me gusta, especialmente, leer los apuntes históricos al final de cada capítulo.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books regarding Artificial Intelligence
Reviewed in Germany on February 4, 2021
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I have been reading negative reviews about the quality of the pages and/or the cover. The book that I received is excellent quality. It is soft cover and there is No problem with the pages or the cover. Regarding the book itself it is one of the best available and is used by many universities around the world.
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Francesco Sisini
5.0 out of 5 stars Chiaro e completo: richiede applicazione nello studio
Reviewed in Italy on January 29, 2021
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Si tratta di un testo di taglio accademico, molto ben fatto completo e coerente. Veramente consigliato.
Non è un libro divulgativo, richiede conoscenze di analisi matematica 1 e 2 per essere compreso in ogni sua parte, ma immagini possa anche essere affrontato ad un livello meno profondo traendone comunque molta conoscenza. Comunque un testo non divulgativo, molto esauriente ma richiede applicazione
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Yves MERLIN
5.0 out of 5 stars Incontournabler !!!
Reviewed in France on March 27, 2020
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Ouvrage (que dis-je PAVE) incontournable pour toute personne qui veut se lancer dans l'Intelligence Artificielle.
Il reprend l'évolution de ce domaine et tous les éléments qui y nous amènent à L'IA d'aujourd'hui.
A posséder et maîtriser impérativement !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gran libro!
Reviewed in Mexico on May 24, 2017
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Un libro muy completo, tiene todo el material necesario para entrar al grandioso mundo de AI, y es una gran referencia para temas más complejos
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