Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning [closed]

Question

I'm just finishing my reading of the Artificial Intelligence a modern approach 3rd Ed. by Perter Norvig. I used this book mostly as an introduction, and to learn more about the general concept of AI. I'll soon start in a machine learning study group with one of my professors and I'd like to know if anyone knows some good books to learn more about Machine Learning (especially Neural Nets, but not just it).

Answer 1

Here's some extracts from the reading list of a course I finished recently:

 

Core Textbook

Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell, McGraw-Hill Press, 1997

 

Neural Networks

D. Chen and P. Burrell, 'Case-based reasoning system and artificial neural networks: A Review (pdf file)', in Neural Computing & Applications, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 264-276, 2001 (Copyright 2001 Springer).

M.F. Valstar and M. Pantic, 'Biologically vs. logic inspired encoding of facial actions and emotions in video (pdf file)', in Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME '06), Toronto, Canada, July 2006 (Copyright 2006 IEEE Press).

S. Petridis and M. Pantic, 'Audiovisual Discrimination between Laughter and Speech (pdf file)', in Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’08), pp. 5117-5120, Las Vegas, USA, April 2008 (Copyright © 2008 IEEE Press).

 

Excellent Books

Pattern Classification by R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart, and D.G. Stork, John Wiley Press, 2005.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop, Springer, 2006

Answer 2

You may want to check out these free online courses:

• Introductory Machine Learning course by Caltech (starts 3rd Apr, 2012; lasts 8 weeks)
• Introduction to Machine Learning by Coursera (should start soon but no date announced yet; lasts 10 weeks)
• Introduction to Machine Learning by Coursera (finished; lasted 10 weeked)