Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!velasco From: velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI genealogy Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 23:11:24 GMT References: <5466@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 22 minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes: >Quite so. Furthermore, Warren McCulloch and Alan Turing were not at >that conference. Or Donald MacKay, etc. This is just a starting point. I suppose we would eventually like this system to go all the way back to the greek philosophers. >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. Actually, this is one of the things that we would like to determine. Has anyone ever actually proven the last quoted statement? -- ________________________________________________ <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give | /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." | /\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|