,                       A First AI Reading List
     
Pre-History

  Turing, A.M., "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in The Mind's I,
    pp. 53-68, D.R. Hofstadter and D.C. Dennet (eds.), Basic Books,
    New York, 1981.

Philosophy

  Marr, D., "The Philosophy and the Approach", Chapter 1 of Vision, 
    pp. 8-38, W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1982.

Knowledge Representation

  Brachman, R., "On The Epistemological Status of Semantic Networks", in
    Associative Networks, Findler (ed.), 1979.

Natural Language

  Schank, R.C., "Language and Memory", Cognitive Science, 4(3), July, 1980,
    pp. 243-284.

Planning and Problem Solving

  Newell, A., H.A. Simon, "GPS a program that simulates human thought", in
    Computers and Thought, pp. 279-296, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1963.

Vision

  Marr, D., "Representing and computing visual information" in Artificial
    Intelligence:  An MIT Perspective, P.H. Winston and R.H. Brown (eds.),
    Vol. 1, pp. 17-80, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1979.

Learning

  Winston, P.H., in The Psychology of Computer Vision, Winston (ed.), 1975

Speech

  Erman, et al, "The Hearsay II speech-understanding system" in Computing
    Surveys, 12(2), pp. 213-253, June, 1980.

Applications

  Chandrasekaran, B., S. Mittal, "Conceptual representation of medical
    knowledge for diagnosis by computer", in Advances in Computers,
    pp. 217-293, M.C. Yovits (ed.), vol. 22, Academic Press, NY, 1983.