xv, 562 p. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Pt. I. Beginnings -- 1. Dreams and Dreamers -- 2. Clues -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. V. "New-Generation" Projects -- 22. The Japanese Create a Stir -- 23. DARPA's Strategic Computing Program -- Pt. VI. Entr'Acte -- 24. Speed Bumps -- 25. Controversies and Alternative Paradigms -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. VIII. Modern AI: Today And Tomorrow -- 32. Extraordinary Achievements -- 33. Ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence -- 34. Smart Tools -- 35. The Quest Continues