Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sarah!cs.albany.edu!karp.albany.edu!swota From: swota@cs.albany.edu (Judith Swota) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Buzzword Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 21:45:27 GMT References: <1991Mar4.170121.9630@news.larc.nasa.gov> Sender: swota@cs.albany.edu Followup-To: arras@icase.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 Lines: 21 In-reply-to: arras@icase.edu's message of 4 Mar 91 17:01:21 GMT In article <1991Mar4.170121.9630@news.larc.nasa.gov> arras writes: > I'm looking for a buzzword that describes problems that at first sound > easy to do, but when it actually comes down to writing an AI program, the > problem turns out to be very difficult to solve. [...deleted...] > A professor notioned at "cryptohard". Surely, there must be a better > word than that. How about bundt? A bundt is a kind of ring cake that looks simple but is actually a pain to make (anyway, I think so), and provides a nice counter to "it'll be a piece of cake". What if it's a piece of bundt. Along similar lines, I can suggest chiffon, black-velvet, and petit four, but on the whole I think bundt is the funniest. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judith | | Think honk if you're a telepath swota@cs.albany.edu |