[rkabir]

my TA secretly recommended Norvig's book over Winston's, but we used Winston's "Artificial Intelligence"

For more philosophy, read Minsky's books / papers, and the readings outlined here: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

Minsky's paper "Steps toward Artificial Intelligence" reads like a summary of 6.034 at MIT.

Speaking of which: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...