George Luger is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Luger was also a Professor in the Psychology and Linguistics Departments, reflecting his interdisciplinary interests in Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics.The National Science Foundation, NATO, the British Royal Society, NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, NIH, the Departments of Defense, Energy and Transportation, NIH, and other government agencies have supported George Luger's research. He has worked with the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and for numerous companies.  Currently, his consulting is in the design of natural language web agents and deep learning technologies that analyze information in very large collections of data. Dr. Luger is the author of Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (Addison-Wesley 2009), now in its Sixth Edition, and Cognitive Science: The Science of Intelligent Systems (Academic Press, 1994).

• PART I, In the Beginning.-1 Creating Computer Programs: An Epistemic Commitment.- 2 Historical Foundations.- 3 Modern AI and How We Got Here.- PART II, AI: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving.- 4 Symbol-Based AI and its Rationalist Presuppositions.- 5 Association and Connectionist Approaches to AI.- 6 Evolutionary Computation and Intelligence.- PART III, On Epistemology: Towards an Active, Pragmatic, Model-Revising Realism.- 7 A Constructivist Rapprochement and an Epistemic Stance.- 8 Bayesian-Based Constructivist Computational Models.- 9 Towards an Active, Pragmatic, Model-Revising Realism.-Bibliography.- Index.

“This book is a ‘must read’ for anyone that has an interest in Artificial Intelligence and epistemologically related issues. Besides offering new insights into the philosophical foundations of epistemology, it is a veritable encyclopedia covering the history and core aspects of contemporary AI and Cognitive Science.” (Daniel G. Schwartz, AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 39 (4), 2024)

George Luger is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Luger was also a Professor in the Psychology and Linguistics Departments, reflecting his interdisciplinary interests in Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics.The National Science Foundation, NATO, the British Royal Society, NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, NIH, the Departments of Defense, Energy and Transportation, NIH, and other government agencies have supported George Luger's research. He has worked with the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and for numerous companies.  Currently, his consulting is in the design of natural language web agents and deep learning technologies that analyze information in very large collections of data. Dr. Luger is the author of Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (Addison-Wesley 2009), now in its Sixth Edition, and Cognitive Science: The Science of Intelligent Systems (Academic Press, 1994).

• PART I, In the Beginning.-1 Creating Computer Programs: An Epistemic Commitment.- 2 Historical Foundations.- 3 Modern AI and How We Got Here.- PART II, AI: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving.- 4 Symbol-Based AI and its Rationalist Presuppositions.- 5 Association and Connectionist Approaches to AI.- 6 Evolutionary Computation and Intelligence.- PART III, On Epistemology: Towards an Active, Pragmatic, Model-Revising Realism.- 7 A Constructivist Rapprochement and an Epistemic Stance.- 8 Bayesian-Based Constructivist Computational Models.- 9 Towards an Active, Pragmatic, Model-Revising Realism.-Bibliography.- Index.

“This book is a ‘must read’ for anyone that has an interest in Artificial Intelligence and epistemologically related issues. Besides offering new insights into the philosophical foundations of epistemology, it is a veritable encyclopedia covering the history and core aspects of contemporary AI and Cognitive Science.” (Daniel G. Schwartz, AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 39 (4), 2024)

George Luger is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Luger was also a Professor in the Psychology and Linguistics Departments, reflecting his interdisciplinary interests in Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics.The National Science Foundation, NATO, the British Royal Society, NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, NIH, the Departments of Defense, Energy and Transportation, NIH, and other government agencies have supported George Luger's research. He has worked with the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and for numerous companies.  Currently, his consulting is in the design of natural language web agents and deep learning technologies that analyze information in very large collections of data. Dr. Luger is the author of Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (Addison-Wesley 2009), now in its Sixth Edition, and Cognitive Science: The Science of Intelligent Systems (Academic Press, 1994).

• PART I, In the Beginning.-1 Creating Computer Programs: An Epistemic Commitment.- 2 Historical Foundations.- 3 Modern AI and How We Got Here.- PART II, AI: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving.- 4 Symbol-Based AI and its Rationalist Presuppositions.- 5 Association and Connectionist Approaches to AI.- 6 Evolutionary Computation and Intelligence.- PART III, On Epistemology: Towards an Active, Pragmatic, Model-Revising Realism.- 7 A Constructivist Rapprochement and an Epistemic Stance.- 8 Bayesian-Based Constructivist Computational Models.- 9 Towards an Active, Pragmatic, Model-Revising Realism.-Bibliography.- Index.

“This book is a ‘must read’ for anyone that has an interest in Artificial Intelligence and epistemologically related issues. Besides offering new insights into the philosophical foundations of epistemology, it is a veritable encyclopedia covering the history and core aspects of contemporary AI and Cognitive Science.” (Daniel G. Schwartz, AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 39 (4), 2024)