Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!novavax!gowj From: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI genealogy Message-ID: <2240@novavax.UUCP> Date: 21 Mar 91 05:46:49 GMT References: <5466@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <17078@venera.isi.edu> Reply-To: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow) Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lines: 23 In article velasco@ngagi.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes: >smoliar@isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) writes: > >>velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes: >>>minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes: > >>>>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? There is an article in the Information Technology Quarterly 1985 vol. 4 no. 4 winter that goes into a great detail regarding this subject of genealogy. It mentions a ratio club and teleogical society and a fellow named weiner who invented cybernetics. There are 19 references. The title "Artificial Intelligence: A long and winding road" Kind of appropriate for this discussion right? linc james