The quest for artificial intelligence a history of ideas and achievements

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Part I. Beginnings: 1. Dreams and dreamers 2. Clues Part II. Early Explorations: 1950s and 1960s: 3. Gatherings 4. Pattern recognition 5. Early heuristic programs 6. Semantic representations 7. Natural language processing 8. 1960s infrastructure Part III. Efflorescence: Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s: 9. Computer vision 10. 'Hand-Eye' research 11. Knowledge representation and reasoning 12. Mobile robots 13. Progress in natural language processing 14. Game playing 15. The dendral project 16. Conferences, books, and funding Part IV. Applications and Specializations: 1970s to Early 1980s: 17. Speech recognition and understanding systems 18. Consulting systems 19. Understanding queries and signals 20. Progress in computer vision 21. Boomtimes Part V. 'New Generation' Projects: 22. The Japanese create a stir 23. Darpa's strategic computing program Part VI. Entr'acte: 24. Speed bumps 25. Controversies and alternative paradigms Part VII. The Growing Armamentarium: From the 1980s Onward: 26. Reasoning and representation 27. Other approaches to reasoning and representation 28. Bayesian networks 29. Machine learning 30. Natural languages and natural scenes 31. Intelligent system architectures Part VIII. Modern AI: Today and Tomorrow: 32. Extraordinary achievements 33. Ubiquitous artificial intelligence 34. Smart tools 35. The quest continues.