Review of "Artificial Intelligence: An MIT Perspective, vol. 2 by P. H. Winston and R. H. Brown"; MIT Press 1982.

This is a paperback edition of the original version published in 1979. Vol. 2 is divided in three sections dealing with vision, manipulation and machine design. (Vol. 1 deals with expert problem solving, natural language, and representation and learning.) Each section contains chapters written by various MIT researchers. In general, each chapter describes recent (as of the original date of publication) MIT research in the particular areas. Each section also provides a nice overview and summary by the editors.