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From: cargo@cherry04.cray.com (David S. Cargo)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Acronym database
Summary: another meaning for AI
Keywords: AI PC
Message-ID: <084822.28537@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 15:33:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.193720.12383@cs.utk.edu> <16135@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, MN
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In article <16135@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
>>Public Domain Acronym/Abbreviation Database
>>AI	- Artificial Intelligence
>... After becoming confused, we discovered I was
>talking about Artificial Intelligence, and she was talking about
>Artificial Insemination...
>-- 
>Darin Johnson

I once was talking with a production engineer (circuit board
assembly).  We discovered that the subject "AI on PCs" was a
reasonable, but ambiguous topic.  To me it meant "artificial
intelligence on personsal computers."  To him it meant "automatic
insertion on programmable controllers."

David S. Cargo (cargo@cray.com)