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Choice book award for two IT lecturers

2 February 2005

A book written by two Monash academics is one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004.

Dr Kevin Korb and Dr Ann Nicholson

The book, Bayesian Artificial Intelligence, was written by Dr Kevin Korb and Dr Ann Nicholson from the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash.

Published in 2003, the book introduces Bayesian network technology, which is based on graphical algorithms, and explains its use in building probabilistic expert systems.

More than 7500 titles were submitted for consideration in the awards, of which 644 were selected as outstanding academic titles.

Selection was based on excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of the book's contribution to the field and its treatment of the subject.

Dr Korb said he was delighted with the acknowledgement by Choice.

"This is recognition of the academic quality of the book and its value for learning about this new approach to applying artificial intelligence," he said.

"While internationally this is an active area of research and application, in Australia Bayesian technology is little known."