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- From: rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun)
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- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.134749.102048@ua1ix.ua.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 13:47:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.010520.17749@latcs1.lat.oz.au> jacob@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski) writes:
- >> o what were the causes of AI Winter?
- >There used to be the time that AI PhDs were regarded not only as great
- >researchers but also as "bloody good programmers", today's AI PhD
- >graduates became virtually unemployable outside academia as the major
- >thrust of their research work shifted into the theoretical foundations
- >AAAI conference (and journal) committees who promote the work by
- >neaties (theorists) rather than by scruffies (software engineers).
- >
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- According to what you said, it seems that AI Ph.D programs should
- be renamed Ph.D programs in LISP programmming?
- Unfortunately, as one of the earlier respondents points out,
- AI applications nowadays do not need much of specialized AI programming
- expertise. Any competent software engineer can do it.
- Why pay more for a Ph.D?
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- No physicist has to be a "bloody good" car mechanic.
- why do AI Ph.Ds have to be "bloody good" programmers?
- Can we view AI more as science, and less as engineering?
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- --Ron
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