Patrick Henry Winston, an American computer scientist and professor of Artificial Intelligence at MIT. His book Artificial Intelligence covers the broad range of AI-Issues [1], including Search, Alpha-Beta and Learning. Winston is also author of various books on Programming Languages, such as Java, Smalltalk, C, C++ and Lisp [2].
Patrick Winston [3]

Selected Publications

• Azriel Rosenfeld, Jerome A. Feldman, Laveen N. Kanal, Patrick H. Winston (1977). AI and Pattern Recognition. IJCAI 1977
• Patrick Winston (1978). Dealing with Adversaries. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 30, November 1978 » Alpha-Beta
• Ryszard Michalski, Patrick Winston (1986). Variable Precision Logic. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 29, pp. 121-146, pdf
• Patrick Winston (1992) Artificial Intelligence. (third Edition)
• Patrick Winston (1995). On To C++
• Patrick Winston (2001). On To Java.

External Links

• Patrick Henry Winston Homepage
• Lecture Videos | Artificial Intelligence | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare, MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, by Patrick Winston, Fall 2010, YouTube Videos

1. Introduction and Scope
2. Reasoning: Goal Trees and Problem Solving
3. Reasoning: Goal Trees and Rule-Based Expert Systems
4. Search: Depth-First, Hill Climbing, Beam
5. Search: Optimal, Branch and Bound, A*
6. Search: Games, Minimax, and Alpha-Beta ^{[6] [7]}
   
7. Constraints: Interpreting Line Drawings
8. Constraints: Search, Domain Reduction
9. Constraints: Visual Object Recognition
10. Introduction to Learning, Nearest Neighbors
11. Learning: Identification Trees, Disorder
12. Learning: Neural Nets, Back Propagation
    
13. Learning: Genetic Algorithms
14. Learning: Sparse Spaces, Phonology
15. Learning: Near Misses, Felicity Conditions
16. Learning: Support Vector Machines
17. Learning: Boosting
18. Representations: Classes, Trajectories, Transitions
19. Architectures: GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind
20. AI business, not available
21. Probabilistic Inference I
22. Probabilistic Inference II
23. Model Merging, Cross-Modal Coupling, Course Summary

References

1. ^ The Table of Contents for Artificial Intelligence
2. ^ Books by Patrick Henry Winston and Friends
3. ^ How to Speak: 7 Speaking Tips from Patrick Henry Winston
4. ^ Books by Patrick Henry Winston and Friends
5. ^ DBLP: Patrick Henry Winston
6. ^ Computer Learns to Hack Chess by Al Williams, Hackaday, October 02, 2015 » Giraffe
7. ^ Chess hackery by Steven Edwards, CCC, October 02, 2015

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