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From: ainac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Nicolai A. Czempin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI schools in the UK
Message-ID: <1212@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Nov 89 14:55:45 GMT
References: <1823@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ainac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Nicolai A. Czempin)
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Hey, this guy is the one I had my interview with; do you remember me?
Well, I went up here after all :-)
In article <1823@syma.sussex.ac.uk> aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
writes:
>In article <863@carroll1.UUCP>, dtroup@carroll1.UUCP
>> 	lack of replys from the 'Big Name' AI institutions. (or perhaps my view
I presume it's U.S. ones tat are being referred to here.
>> 	of the AI community is a little off base :-)
>Chris Malcolm outlined what is available at Edinburgh University, and
>ainac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Nicolai A. Czempin) commented:
>
>> You may be interested in what students here think ...
>> [.... stuff deleted ....]
>> Sussex University, my second (and only other) choice.
>So, I thought I had better provide information on Sussex University,
[info about Sussex]


I thought people might like to know _why_ I chose Edinburgh rather than
Sussex for AI.
Edinburgh University AI is much more CS (i.e. technical:Robotics, Vision
etc.) related, while Sussex is more on the cognitive side of things
(i.e. Philosophy, Psychology etc.- How do people work?)
In that respect, I really couldn't make up my mind, and I ended up
choosing on the grounds of non-course related things.
So please do realize that I consider Sussex as a very good choice.
All the other ones mentioned I didn't even consider, because they
haven't done AI for very long, although they might be catching up now.
In fact, one of the pluspoints for EU is that they have been doing it
for A LONG TIME (i.e. I wasn't around when they started). 

Again, only personal opinions have been stated.
I am surprised that I haven't seen any postings from any other people
studying here.. (or at Sussex, for that matter)

If you are interested in any more detail why I eventually chose this
place (i.e. those course-unrelated things) please email me.

-- 
Nicolai Czempin 
"I am not left-handed either"


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