Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdcc6!ngagi!velasco From: velasco@ngagi.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI genealogy Keywords: genealogy Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 19:06:11 GMT References: <2571@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> <31363@mimsy.umd.edu> <5510@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 21 minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes: >I noted in my well-known paper on Frames that Charniak's thesis >discussed the activation, operation, and dismissal of expectation and >default-knowledge demons -- and that "many of his ideas have been >absorbed into this essay." I've always had a lot of ideas of "my >own", but I've been really outstandingly good at learning from those >so-called "students". Dr. Minsky brings up a good point. It would be interesting to see how advisors are affected by their students. As he notes many of his students' ideas have been absorbed into his essays. This would imply that there is an even stronger advisor-student relation; strengthened by the influence that the students have on the advisor. This relation, of course, would not be evident if we only examine theses. -- ________________________________________________ <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give | /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." | /\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|