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+% This file is logically part of MIT-Press-Book.STY, created and maintained
+% by EB@OZ.  Please do not change it.
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+% To be input within \begin{frontmatter}...\end{frontmatter}.
+
+\chapter*{Series Foreword}
+
+Artificial intelligence is the study of intelligence using the ideas
+and methods of computation.  Unfortunately, a definition of
+intelligence seems impossible at the moment because intelligence
+appears to be an amalgam of so many information-processing and
+information-representation abilities.
+
+Of course psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines
+offer various perspectives and methodologies for studying
+intelligence.  For the most part, however, the theories proposed in
+these fields are too incomplete and too vaguely stated to be realized
+in computational terms.  Something more is needed, even though
+valuable ideas, relationships, and constraints can be gleaned from
+traditional studies of what are, after all, impressive existence
+proofs that intelligence is in fact possible.
+
+Artificial intelligence offers a new perspective and a new
+methodology.  Its central goal is to make computers intelligent, both
+to make them more useful and to understand the principles that make
+intelligence possible.  That intelligent computers will be extremely
+useful is obvious.  The more profound point is that artificial
+intelligence aims to understand intelligence using the ideas and
+methods of computation, thus offering a radically new and different
+basis for theory formation.  Most of the people doing artificial
+intelligence believe that these theories will apply to any intelligent
+information processor, whether biological or solid state.
+
+There are side effects that deserve attention, too.  Any program that
+will successfully model even a small part of intelligence will be
+inherently massive and complex.  Consequently, artificial intelligence
+continually confronts the limits of computer science technology.  The
+problems encountered have been hard enough and interesting enough to
+seduce artificial intelligence people into working on them with
+enthusiasm.  It is natural, then, that there has been a steady flow of
+ideas from artificial intelligence to computer science, and the flow
+shows no sign of abating.
+
+%Robotics is the part of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the
+%intelligent connection of perception to action.  A key issue in
+%Robotics is understanding the mechanics of manipulation as a basis for
+%the successful planning and execution of robot tasks.  Currently, we
+%cannot claim to understand manipulation.  Our knowledge of robotics is
+%almost entirely empirical.  If fundamental principles exist, we have
+%not discovered them.  We consider this book to be an important step
+%toward uncovering such principles.
+
+The purpose of this MIT Press Series in Artificial
+Intelligence is to provide people in many areas, both professionals
+and students, with timely, detailed information about what is
+happening on the frontiers in research centers all over the world.
+
+\vskip 10pt
+\noindent
+Patrick Henry Winston \hfill Michael Brady 
+
+\vfill
+
+\newpage
+
+% end of Series Foreword
+