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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!SAIL.Stanford.EDU!les
  3. From: les@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Les Earnest)
  4. Subject: Re: Pressure to get it right
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.000122.10365@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  7. Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
  8. References: <920716225805_72240.1256_EHL48-2@CompuServe.COM> <TED.92Jul25001257@pylos.nmsu.edu>
  9. Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:01:22 GMT
  10. Lines: 24
  11.  
  12. ted@nmsu.edu writes:
  13. .  .  .
  14. >with regard to miti being terribly careful people, take the 5th
  15. >generation project as the canonical counter-example.  there were lots
  16. >of claims made by people regarded as trustworthy by miti, and now
  17. >a few years and yen later, the program is essentially a bust.  none of
  18. >the real goals of the project were met.
  19.  
  20. I believe that it would be more accurate to say that none of the
  21. *stated* goals were met, but that the real goal (to substantially
  22. increase research funding for the MITI establishment) was met
  23. admirably.  In fact, this project also had the effect of substantially
  24. increasing government-sponsored computer research in the U.S., which
  25. was stimulated by a well-known book describing the threat of
  26. Japanese domination of the field (the "yellow peril" stikes again!).
  27.  
  28. I wouldn't want to claim that the 5th generation project and the
  29. hysterical response in the U.S. were products of a conspiracy between
  30. research groups in the two countries, but that model certainly fits
  31. the data.
  32. --
  33. Les Earnest                                  Phone:  415 941-3984
  34. Internet: Les@cs.Stanford.edu              USMail: 12769 Dianne Drive
  35. UUCP: . . . decwrl!cs.Stanford.edu!Les         Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
  36.