History of AI What is AI? Strong and Weak AI The Result of AI AIs Modern Timeline Branches of AI Key Researchers Philosophical, Moral, and Social Issues Structure of this Book 2 Pathfinding and the A-Star Algorithm 3 Simulated Annealing 4 Particle Swarm Optimization 5 Introduction to Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART1) 6 Introduction to Classifier Systems 7 Ant Algorithms 8 Introduction to Neural Networks and the Backpropagation 9 Introduction to Reinforcement Learning 10 Introduction to Genetic Algorithms 11 Artificial Life 13 Introduction to Fuzzy Logic 14 Natural Language Processing 15 The Bigram Model 16 Agent-based Software 17 AI Today References Resources Appendix A Exercises and Problems Appendix B About the CD-ROM