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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:53:08 GMT
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- danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught) writes:
- >The ACM's guide to computing careers (can't remember the exact name) has
- >a (small) section on careers in AI. It says, basically, not to do it,
- >that there isn't much of a market for AI professionals. It suggests
- >that people interested in AI should apply AI techniques in one of the
- >more common computer career areas.
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- I wonder what happened to those people who studied for degrees in
- "Knowledge Engineering" at Stanford in the mid-80s. This was
- back when Feigenbaum was appearing on national TV saying the US would
- become an agrarian nation if the government didn't finance his proposed
- national AI center, and people were really worried about the Japanese
- Fifth Generation effort.
-
- "Will write rules for food", maybe?
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- John Nagle
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