Encompasses the variable approaches to Artificial Intelligence in 267 articles written by 205 experts. It is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work that defines the discipline and brings together the core of knowledge from all the AI fields. Clarifies and corrects misinterpretations and provides a proper understanding of Artificial Intelligence.
Hard to tell from the Goodreads description, but I think this is a three-volume set that I obtained in the late 80s. It contained a smorgasbord of articles on many subjects and may have been the only thing of its kind at the time. I didn't read all of it by any means, but I referred, for instance, to whatever it had to say about Terry Winograd and his SHRDLU program.