Do you have a better AI text? I recently (years ago) tried to teach from Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Synthesis-Nils...), but found it seriously lacking.

For practicing programmers I've found books like "AI for Game Programmers" to be surprisingly good. Although clearly not the breadth or theoretical basis of an actual text.

What would be nice are video lectures of a class that follows this text, ala the SICP lectures from MIT.