Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp Book

Peter Norvig gives us an amazing collection of Lisp programs solving real-world AI problems. I must confess I skimmed some of the more esoteric parts of the book, such as the natural language processing, or implemeting Prolog in Lisp, but other parts (especially the one about an Othello-playing program) I found deeply fascinating--especially as I've myself tried to write a game-playing program in Lisp ()

Although this book includes a primer on Lisp, it is by far not a book about learning Lisp. This is more about showing how modern AI problems can be solved with a truly generic programming language such as Lisp.

The book is ginormous, and reading it is not a light undertaking but is well worth the effort. Will you become a better programmer after reading it? Not necessarily, unless you happen to be involved in writing this kind of programs. Read The Little Schemer instead if you want to become a better person. But I dare say that reading this book might open your eyes to the possibilities offered by this amazing language.