Yep, Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork: http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-2nd-Richard-Duda/dp/0471056693 http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-

Yep, Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork: http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-2nd-Richard-Duda/dp/0471056693 http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-2nd-Richard-Dud... It is very pragmatic, including algorithms for many machine learning and artificial intelligence topics (from fitting functions for classification or regression purposes to search processes). The authors have a strong industrial background (in addition to the academic).