Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new, it has been around since 1950's. AI resurfaced at that time while Moore's law was on an aggressive path of scaling, with the transformation of NMOS and later bipolar technology to CMOS for high performance, low power as well as low cost applications. Several breakthroughs in the electronics industry helped to push Moore's law in chip miniaturization along with increased computing power (parallel and distributed processing) and memory bandwidth. Overall, the book covers two broad topics: general AI advances, and applications to neuromorphic computing.