Doug Fisher Books

This volume contains a revised collection of papers originally presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in 1995. The topics represented in this volume are diverse, and include natural language application causality and graphical models, classification, learning, knowledge discovery, and exploratory data analysis. The chapters illustrate the rich possibilities for interdisciplinary study at the interface of artificial intelligence and statistics. The chapters vary in the background that they assume, but moderate familiarity with techniques of artificial intelligence and statistics is desirable in most cases.

This book is a cartographic adventure that begins as a casual investigation into a curious but unlikely claim that an ancient civilization charted the Antarctic continent. The investigation that ensues leads the reader down a trail of mystery and intrigue revealing a series of fresh observations and new discoveries surrounding ancient maps, mythical lost civilizations, and geological paradigms