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- From: ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg)
- Subject: Re: TOP? Graduate Programs in AI
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:51:44 GMT
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- Here's my list, for what it's worth. But first, a couple of disclaimers:
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- 1. This list bears fairly little resemblance to the conventional
- wisdom about what the good schools are. In part, that's a reflection
- of personal biases on my part. The list *certainly* reflects my
- opinion that core AI (search, knowledge representation) is more
- interesting than applied AI or connectionism. It's also a reflection
- of broad knowledge on my part about who is active in the field and who
- isn't, who makes a good advisor and who doesn't, and so on.
-
- 2. The list refers to AI *only*. I'm not competent to judge computer
- science departments as a whole, plain and simple. If you're about to
- apply to grad school, you take a big risk if you go somewhere that is
- strong in AI and weak elsewhere, since you might (believe it or not)
- change your mind about what you're interested in.
-
- I also haven't included location in the list. Stanford benefits
- because it's near SRI, IBM Almaden, and Xerox Parc. MIT benefits
- similarly from being in Boston. My list is based on members of the
- various departments only.
-
- 3. What follows are my opinions *only*. I've tried to be as
- objective as I can, but that probably doesn't count for much. I'm
- currently at Stanford, but will be moving to the University of Oregon
- over the summer. (In constructing the list, I considered myself a
- member of U of O, not Stanford.) I've also probably left out some
- important places, and probably forgotten about some important people
- at the places I *have* listed. So that's yet another reason to take
- my list with a grain of salt.
-
- 4. I'm *not* trying to say anything about specific researchers here.
- Some of the people I view as the best in the field are at schools that
- I've ranked fairly poorly because the rest of their AI folks aren't as
- strong. I'm only trying to help prospective applicants, and hope that
- my remarks are taken in that light only.
-
- 5. I've ranked the schools out of a scale of 100. That's not to say
- that CMU is perfect; I'm just trying to convey a sense of my
- impression of the magnitude of the differences between the choices.
-
- All that said:
-
- CMU 100
- Toronto 85
- U Oregon 75
- UCLA 75
- MIT 75
- U Washington 65
- Stanford 60
-
- After that is a fairly large group (U Maryland, Penn, Pitt, Rochester,
- Yale come to mind) that is probably around 45. Then another large group
- (U Texas Austin, Irvine, Waterloo and surely others) that is in the high
- 30's.
-
- Matt Ginsberg
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