Thinking as Computation: A First Course - Hardcover

Levesque, Hector J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262016990 ISBN 13: 9780262016995

Verlag: MIT Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This book guides students through an exploration of the idea that thinking might be understood as a form of computation. Students make the connection between thinking and computing by learning to write computer programs for a variety of tasks that require thought, including solving puzzles, understanding natural language, recognizing objects in visual scenes, planning courses of action, and playing strategic games. The material is presented with minimal technicalities and is accessible to undergraduate students with no specialized knowledge or technical background beyond high school mathematics. Students use Prolog (without having to learn algorithms: Prolog without tears!), learning to express what they need as a Prolog program and letting Prolog search for answers.

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Hector J. Levesque is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is the coauthor (with Gerhard Lakemeyer) of The Logic of Knowledge Bases (MIT Press, 2001) and coeditor (with Ronald J. Brachman) of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (MIT Press, 1992).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262016990
• ISBN 13: 9780262016995
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
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