Building intelligent .NET applications; agents, data mining, rule-based systems, and speech processing

SciTech Book News, June, 2005

QA76.9

2004-117956

0-321-24626-8

Building intelligent .NET applications; agents, data mining, rule-based systems, and speech processing.

Rea, Sara Morgan. (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

Addison-Wesley, [c]2005

280 p.

$44.99 (pa)

It seems like only yesterday "the net" was something you could hang a printer on to share with your neighbors, if you were lucky. In this hybrid, the author describes Computer Intelligence (CI), a branch of Artificial Intelligence that seeks to enhance traditional business applications by giving computers the abilities to learn and evolve. The author steps through speech applications, including telephony and multimodal speech applications, data-mining predictions, the creation of an evolving database, and the use of an "agent" as part of the CI environment. She also prepares us for what is to come, which is doubtless far beyond those of us who once lusted for a printer can imagine.