AI -TV from 1984

José of Programming Musings found a video with Daniel Bobrow explaining CLOS from 1987. Being somewhat of a history-geek, I really love this type of thing and I've managed to collect a few interesting links myself.

One that I can particularly recommend is Computer Chronicles: Artifical Intelligence (1984) which is a twenty minute TV show featuring, among others, John McCarthy and discusses AI in general, Expert Systems and Lisp.

Expert Systems Book

I live about 50 m from the University of Chalmers and, naturally, I make use of their library.

During my visit last week I accidently found a very interesting 6-volume set of books named Expert Systems: The Technology of Knowledge Management and Decision Making for the 21st Century.

I'm currently reading the first volume and it is very good. It's a bit theoretical, but I can really recommend it to anyone interested in Expert Systems. Here's a short list of selected chapters to whet your appetite:

Volume 1.
Ch. 4 - Reasoning with Imperfect Information.

Volume 2.
Ch. 9 - Model of Reasoning with Conflicting Information Sources in Knowledge Based Systems.

Volume 3.
Ch. 24 - Cellular Automata Architectures for Pattern Recognition.

Volume 4.
Ch. 29 - Automatic Knowledge Discovery in Larger Scale Knowledge-Data Bases.
Ch. 34 - Neural Networks for Economic Forecasting Problems.

Volume 5.
Ch. 37 - Hybrid Expert Systems: An Approach to Combining Neural Computation and Rule-Based Reasoning.
Ch. 40 - Distributed Logic Processors in Process Indentification.

Volume 6.
Ch. 46 - Methodology for Building Case-Based Resaoning Systems in Ill-Structured Optimization Domains.

There are 50 chapters all in all spanning almost 2000 pages so this is probably going to take me a while.