Re: [computer-go] sharing secret... book :D

[Richard Brown <rbrown@xxxxxxxx>]

Suciu Flavius wrote:

> could anybody recomand his "secret" AI introductory
> book?? I'm interested in a book related to minimax,
> alfa-beta, aspiration search and other game tree
> search algorithms.
As for introductory books, allow me to recommend two:

The Pattern Recognition Basis of Artificial Intelligence
Donald R. Tveter
IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998
ISBN 0-8186-7796-1
<http://www.computer.org/cspress/CATALOG/bp07796.htm>

Pattern Classification, Second Edition
Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, and David G. Stork
Wiley-Interscience, 2001
ISBN: 0-471-05669-3
<http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471056693.html>

Though not limited to game tree search algorithms, these are both
excellent introductory  AI texts.  The first is by an engineer,
rather than a theorist, and goes a long way toward de-mystifying
"Artificial Intelligence".  [A horrible misnomer, if ever there
was one!]  The second is the re-working of a classic in the field,
updated more than a quarter-century after the  publication of the
original, with lots of new results from the 1990s.  Good stuff!
[Just make sure it's the _second_ edition!]

Somewhat denser and less forgiving, but my favorite AI text by far, is:

A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition
Luc Devroye, László Györfi, and Gábor Lugosi
Springer-Velag, 1996 (Corrected second printing 1997)
ISBN 0-387-94618-7
<http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40109-22-1513900-0,00.html>

This one is the bible, as far as I'm concerned.

One of the authors (Luc Devroye) has put up the table of contents
at  <http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/pattrec.html> .

Disclaimer:  I'm not an academic.  More of a dilettante, really.

[Hmmm, I wonder if "dilettante" means the same thing in French
as it does in English...  I know that "entrepreneur" doesn't.]

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