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From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI genealogy
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Date: 8 Mar 91 06:58:59 GMT
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In article <JJ.91Mar7100015@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> jj@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Josephson) writes:
>Of course many of us researchers doing important and significant work
>will not be shown in the AI family tree constructed simply by
>teacher-student decent from the participants at the Darthmouth
>conference.   .. jj

Quite so.  Furthermore, Warren McCulloch and Alan Turing were not at
that conference.  Or Donald MacKay, etc.  I could not possibly be more
pleased than I am by how much my own students have accomplished, but
the formal relation of thesis advisor is not a very good indicator of
the evolution of ideas in the community of international science.