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Thomas L. Dean , Michael P. Wellman, Planning and control, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1991

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Peters Ltd., Natick, MA. Haugeland, J. 1997. Mind Design II: Philosophy

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Psycho{og3 and Artificia{ Intelligence. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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Joseph L. Jones , Anita M. Flynn, Mobile robots: inspiration to implementation, A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 1993

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Brill, E. "Transformation-based error-driven parsing." In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Parser #chnologies. Tilburg, the Netherlands. 1993.

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Eric Brill, Some advances in transformation-based part of speech tagging, Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1), p.722-727, October 1994, Seattle, Washington, United States

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Eugene Charniak, Statistical Language Learning, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994

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Chomsky, N. Syntactic Structures. Mouton, The Hague. 1957.

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Shannon, C. 'SA mathematical theory of communication.'' The Bell System #chnicalJourna# 27(3-4): 379-423, 623-656. 1948.

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An excellent historical reference is: A. Pais, Inward Bound, Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K., 1986.

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R. E Feynman, QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1985.

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A recent popular account that does a good job of illustrating the "weirdness" of quantum mechanics is: J. Gribbin, Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality, Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1995.

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Quoted in J. Gribbin, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, Bantam Books, New York, 1984.

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Although they may be anathema to certain Ai researchers, the books by Penrose give a technical yet very readable overview of these aspects of quantum mechanics: R. Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.,1989; and Shadows of the Mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 1994. As an aside, the hypothetical theory of "quantum gravity" proposed by Penrose as an explanation for the working of the brain has nothing to do with the quantum computing described in the book under review.

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N. Gershenfeld and L L. Chuang, "Quantum computing with molecules," Scientific American, 278, No. 6, 66, 1998.

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D. Bouwmeester, et al., "Experimental quantum teleportation," Nature, 390, 575-579, 1997.

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B. A. Cipra, "Quantum computation: A new spin on complexity theory," SIAM News, 31, No. 8, 1, 1998.

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The following Web site is a good starting point for further information on quantum computing: http://www.qubit.org.

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