Knowledge Representation and Reasoning or 100 Ideas for Stationery Cards and Invitations

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Author: Ronald Brachman

Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed.

This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented in a simple and intuitive form, and the basics of reasoning with that representation are explained in detail. This approach gives readers a solid foundation for understanding the more advanced work found in the research literature. The presentation is clear enough to be accessible to a broad audience, including researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented systems as well as artificial intelligence. This book provides the foundation in knowledge representation and reasoning that every AI practitioner needs.

*Authors are well-recognized experts in the field who have applied the techniques to real-world problems
* Presents the core ideas of KR&R in a simple straight forward approach, independent of the quirks of research systems
*Offers the first true synthesis of the field in over a decade

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100 Ideas for Stationery, Cards, and Invitations: Simple and Stylish Projects Using Handmade and Digital Techniques

Author: Laura McFadden

There's something undeniably heartwarming in the old-fashioned and thoughtful gesture of creating and sending a personal note, a romantic card, or a handwritten thank you.

For readers who like receiving such notes as well as sending them, this book is for you. It offers more than 100 unique ideas for creating personalized stationery featuring traditional media, such as using stamps, paint, punches, needle and thread, as well as using the computer to generate monograms, borders and trims, clip art, photographs, and much more.

The stationery examples are simple, yet elegant, and feature a beautiful, fun, and sophisticated range of styles that appeal to everyone, not just skilled crafters. Designs can be made quickly, and can be executed assembly-line style, so that it's easy to make 10 or 20 sheets in one sitting. Most of all, the graceful handcrafted designs will delight the receiver.