I wish I had come across this book when learning prolog for my "Intro to AI" class. Far more useful than the nearly insane Grad Student that "taught" us the language. I learned more about how broken the human mind can become than I ever did about prolog or AI concepts.

You can't just not tell us more. How was his mind "broken".

One strange dude. His shoelace came untied once in class, so he tied it around his pant leg to "show it who's boss." The whole experience was simply strange. We agreed as a class that exposure to pure logic must have rewired his mind to give the illogical processes priority over everything else.

Hmm. This is one of those cases where I want to know more, but I know that knowing more would only depress me. It's scary knowing you or a loved one could turn out like this. I hope he's better now.

I don't think he was "broken" so severely that he couldn't function. But there were definitely some cracks in his psyche. Made for a slightly confusing course. As I recall he still finished his post-graduate research, and is presumably and hopefully now a productive member of society. (Though there are many of my fellow alumni from that timeframe that aren't working in anything related to our fields, having the benefit of graduating during the dot-bomb fallout and the Enron/AA mess. Our "career fairs" that year were... entertainingly silent, to say the least.)

that stupid lace had it coming.

But more importantly: Did someone try to use Prolog to mend it?

Thanks for the kind words, I found this site after trying to figure out why there were a bunch of hits all of a sudden.

This is really excellent. I've always wanted to learn prolog and surprisingly not been able to find a good way. This resource is clear to the point of being boring, which is precisely what I needed. {Add statement about how in the good ole days people understood how to write programming tutorials.}

I must admit that the first sentence greeting the reader being "This document ("Work") is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties." is a bit off-putting.

You're right. That's left over from it's original publication as a hardcover with Springer Verlag. It's not necessary anymore. I'll take it off.

I guess I can stop lending out my hardcopy now.

Very cool. I challenge the overachieving Clojurian to port it to core.logic :D

My first thought was that this was the original Adventure game coded in Prolog :S

That's what inspired it, see the Preface.

oldie but goodie.