The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To Artificial Intelligence: Bbc Basic Version
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Long before artificial intelligence became a household term, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Artificial Intelligence offered curious minds a practical and accessible entry point into one of computing's most fascinating frontiers, written specifically for users of the BBC Micro and its BASIC programming language. Richard Forsyth and Chris Naylor chronicle the core concepts of AI — from knowledge representation and expert systems to pattern recognition and machine learning — grounding each topic in hands-on programming examples that readers could run and experiment with themselves. The book presents complex ideas with commendable clarity, stripping away academic jargon to instruct both the enthusiastic amateur and the budding computer scientist in the real mechanics of intelligent systems. Written during the golden age of home computing in the 1980s, this title stands as a significant artefact of a period when AI was both a serious research discipline and an exciting hobby pursuit. Forsyth and Naylor's style is engagingly pragmatic, blending theoretical rigour with a wit that keeps the material lively rather than dry. Published by Chapman and Hall/Methuen, it argues persuasively that intelligence — artificial or otherwise — is something that can be understood, modelled, and even built by anyone with curiosity and a BBC Micro at their fingertips. For those who wonder how the AI revolution truly began, the answers may lie closer to a 1980s keyboard than you might expect.
Author: Richard Forsyth And Chris Naylor
Format: Paperback
Published: 1985, Chapman and Hall/Methuen
Genre: Science
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before artificial intelligence became a household term, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Artificial Intelligence offered curious minds a practical and accessible entry point into one of computing's most fascinating frontiers, written specifically for users of the BBC Micro and its BASIC programming language. Richard Forsyth and Chris Naylor chronicle the core concepts of AI — from knowledge representation and expert systems to pattern recognition and machine learning — grounding each topic in hands-on programming examples that readers could run and experiment with themselves. The book presents complex ideas with commendable clarity, stripping away academic jargon to instruct both the enthusiastic amateur and the budding computer scientist in the real mechanics of intelligent systems. Written during the golden age of home computing in the 1980s, this title stands as a significant artefact of a period when AI was both a serious research discipline and an exciting hobby pursuit. Forsyth and Naylor's style is engagingly pragmatic, blending theoretical rigour with a wit that keeps the material lively rather than dry. Published by Chapman and Hall/Methuen, it argues persuasively that intelligence — artificial or otherwise — is something that can be understood, modelled, and even built by anyone with curiosity and a BBC Micro at their fingertips. For those who wonder how the AI revolution truly began, the answers may lie closer to a 1980s keyboard than you might expect.