In summary, the book is an excellent description not only of the ARCHON project, but of some of the best ideas in DAI. It would make a great supplementary text for graduate courses on AI, and be inspirational reading for DAI practitioners. I recommend it highly. Artificial Intelligence in Perspective by Daniel G. Bobrow (Ed.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1993, pp. 463 Reviewed by: Rajkumar Roy Plymouth Engineering Design Centre University of Plymouth Plymouth PL4 8AA UK Email: rroy @plymouth.ac.uk (or r.roy@ieee.org) and Raju S. Bapi Neurodynamics Research Group University of Plymouth Plymouth PL4 8AA UK Email: rajubapi @ soc.plym.ac.uk The past and present of Artificial Intelligence have been nicely presented in the book, "Artificial Intelligence in Perspective". This book is dedicated to Allen Newell, one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI). The book looks at the achievements of AI between 1971 and 1986 and examines their present relevance. The editor had invited about thirty authors whose papers had been heavily cited to write commentary on the impact and relevance of their original work from a contemporary perspective. The second part of the book consists of several reviews of Newell's book, "Unified Theories of Cognition." Two
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