Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!odin!demers From: demers@odin.ucsd.edu (David E Demers) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI genealogy Message-ID: <17361@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 01:32:24 GMT References: <5466@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1991Mar8.155651.17264@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: CSE Dept., UC San Diego Lines: 18 In article <1991Mar8.155651.17264@cs.cmu.edu> valdes+@cs.cmu.edu (Raul Valdes-Perez) writes: >I think that the proposed project is worthy of carrying out. Any inferences >drawn at its conclusion should be cautious, and made with due regard to its >assummptions. But that is true of any experimental work, particularly >historical-data gathering. In any case, the criteria for inclusion likely >would evolve as the project progressed. I concur. Though I am not working on this project, I am aware of it, and my understanding is that the intent is NOT to be exclusive. Rather, as INCLUSIVE as possible. But one must start somewhere. -- Dave DeMers demers@cs.ucsd.edu Computer Science & Engineering C-014 demers%cs@ucsd.bitnet UC San Diego ...!ucsd!cs!demers La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 (619) 534-8187,-0688 ddemers@UCSD