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From: sbrunnoc@hawk.CS.ULowell.EDU (Sean Brunnock)
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Subject: Re: Why AI is not a science
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 11:58:46 EDT
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      Gentlemen, please! (my apologies to any women reading this)

      AI is a very young branch of science. Computer science as a whole
   is only a little more than 40 years old. How can you compare AI with
   mathematics or physics which are thousands of years old?

      Aristotle made some of the first stabs at elemental chemistry and
   gravitation. From our enlightened viewpoint, can we call him a scientist?

      Give it time, its too early to tell.

				   
				   S. Brunnock