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From: will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (will)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Out of the lab, into the classroom
Keywords: reuse fabulous
Message-ID: <218@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp>
Date: 5 Apr 91 07:27:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.202227.13796@agate.berkeley.edu> <18252@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Ryukoku Univ., Seta, Japan
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In article <18252@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J Meltsner) writes:
>I'm actually a disgruntled expert systems customer, but I've been
>seeing behavior in the visualization types similar to that exhibited
>by the expert systems types in their heyday.  I was pretty dismayed,
>for example, by the Visualization '90 Proceedings and the number of
>content-free papers.  It's hard to quantify, but I think you're
>definitely going need to shake out some of the under-sized apples (if
>not actually rotten) before the field can be appraised properly.  I
>understand this is all pretty new, but I'm tired of the hype.  And I'd
>certainly be cautious about doing my graduate studies in an
>ill-defined discipline like "visualization."  Or "knowledge
>engineering," for that matter.
>
	This was probably one of the sadest effects of the Marketing of the
	AI field.  I really hope it does'nt do diservice to the Visualization
	field.  But, if I remember correctly, one of the major reasons for
	such behavior (at least on the AI side) was that the government would
	not fund boring technology.  Please correct me if I am wrong.


>Fine.  Let the user specify some preferences and allow the program to
>work within those.  I'm flexible (but the software I use rarely is...).
>

	This is probably because, it takes a long long time to refine the
	flexability into software.  Much longer than most Corporate managers
	will allow.  One of my main problems with RiGS-e was not the making
	of the software or even learning the X window system.  I found the
	most difficult part came from the various types of people that are
	going to use the system.  No 2 people interact with the computer in the
	same way (at least not with the same level of understanding).





                                        William Dee Rieken
                                        Researcher, Computer Visualization
                                        Faculty of Science and Technology
                                        Ryukoku University
                                        Seta, Otsu 520-21,
                                        Japan

                                        Tel: 0775-43-7418(direct)
                                        Fax: 0775-43-7749
                                        will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp