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From: msellers@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Sellers)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.cog-eng,comp.ai,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Another vote for comp.cog-sci (was Re: time for sci.psych???)
Message-ID: <1988Jan18.190755.220@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 19 Jan 88 03:07:50 GMT
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Keywords: Cognitive Science newsgroup

In article <4215@utai.UUCP>, tjhorton@utai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) writes:
> I'm hoping, eventually, for a sci.cognitive or comp.cog.sci somewhere,
> somewhen, somehow.  Apparently, a lot of people were upset about misuse of
> comp.cog-eng, since it's supposed to be about cognitive factors engineering,
> (ie. human factors topics), but people have continued to "misuse" it again.
> Considering the kinds of material mentioned, should such a newsgroup have
> "cognitive" somewhere in the title? (ie. "cog")]
> 
> A separate vote for sci.cog-sci?
>
> Timothy J Horton (416) 979-3109   tjhorton@ai.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet)

Yes, definitely.  This subject is gaining in popularity, though many of the 
sub-groups of people involved (computer scientists, psychologists, 
neurologists, anthropologists, linguists, etc.) only know their area and 
don't seem to know much about what the others are doing or thinking.  This 
field is in such a state of flux that it is difficult to keep up with much
of what is going on.  A forum for discussion of issues, ideas, theories, 
questions, research, and happenings related to Cognitive Science would be 
a welcome and useful addition to the net (sorry, I can't moderate a group 
or list, however :-7 ).  Any other votes?


-- 
Mike Sellers                ...!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!msellers
Mentor Graphics Corp., Electronic Packaging and Analysis Division
"The goal of AI is to take the meaningful and make it meaningless."
                                  -- An AI prof, referring to LISP