Re: Good Books on AI topics?

Matthew wrote:
> Hi, I am very interested in AI, especially Neural Nets, Genetic
> Algoritms, Genetic Programming, and Growth Alogrithms. What are the
> best books on these subjects?

For an introduction to AI, you could try 'Artificial Intelligence - A 
modern approach', by Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig.

For an introduction to genetic algorithms, you could read:

1) An introduction to genetic algorithms, by Melanie Mitchell.
2) Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization & Machine Learning, by
    David E. Goldberg. (This is the bible of Genetic Algorithms)

For an introduction to neural nets, you could try 'Neural Networks - A 
comprehensive foundation', by Simon Haykin. (There is a load of maths in 
there)

If you are interested in the application of genetic algorithms to 
animation or games, have a look at 'AI techniques for Game programming', 
by Mat Buckland.

Hope this helps.

All the best

Fidel.

PS: Does anyone else knows of other books on Neural Networks?

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