Artificial Intelligence: the Heuristic Programming Approach

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First ed., first printing (full number line). Blue and black half-cloth octavo in grey pictorial jacket; x, 196 pages: illustrations; index; 23 cm Ex private library; a near fine copy in very good jacket with light edgewear and small closed tear to front bottom corner; sunning to spine and sticker to spine; now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

"This book consists of an organized description of "intelligent" machines. The book is primarily a textbook for undergraduate and graduate student s of computer science in general, and artificial intelligence in particular."--Preface.

Contents: The Heuristic programming approach to artificial intelligence. Programs that play checkers, kalah, and chess. Programs for five-in-a-row, qubic, and card games. Programs that solve problems in chess, geometry and calculus. Automatic theorem proving using the resolution principle. A multipurpose heuristic program. The general problem-solver program. Programs that balance assembly lines, write programs, compose music, and find chemical structures. Automatic deductive question answering. Automatically finding linear functions that make evaluations and recognize patterns. The elementary perceiving and memorizing program.

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