Connectionists: AI book

[Hava Siegelmann]

Dear friends, I'm looking for an engaging AI book fitting to an UG 
class. I would like not to emphasize the history and searches but give 
some of this and mainly new stuff.
Would like to hear advice.

Regards - Hava

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Hava T. Siegelmann, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, BINDS Lab (Biologically Inspired Neural Dynamical Systems)
Dept. of Computer Science
Program of Neuroscience and Behavior
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, 01003
Phone: 413-545-2744  Fax: 413-545-1249
LAB WEBSITE: http://binds.cs.umass.edu/