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From: garyb@hpmwtla.HP.COM (Gary Bringhurst)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: interviewing experts
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Date: 8 Feb 88 22:08:59 GMT
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(for the nasty line eating bug)

Warning: flaming ahead

As a (modest) computer scientist, I always find it disturbing to read
condescending remarks like those of professors Wood and Ford, who have, by
their own admission, been involved in AI only a short time (two years).
 
>We
>do, however,  believe that it is important for practicing
>knowledge engineers to attend to methodologies developed outside
>of AI so that they can spend their time  refining and extending
>their application to AI rather than "reinventing the  wheel."

I agree with this statement, as I believe any professional should try to expand
his area of expertise as far as possible.  Would I be out of place to ask
that cognitive psychologists who wish to contribute to AI study a little
computer science in return?

I have actually taken a class from Dr. Wood, and unless his depth of knowledge
in the field of computer science has increased significantly since early 1987,
I would find it very hard to give much weight to anything he says.

>Larry E. Wood                      John M. Ford
>woodl@byuvax.bitnet                fordjm@byuvax.bitnet

I suppose I'm just tired of well meaning zealots jumping into the foray.
The AI bandwagon is loaded heavily enough as is.  Let's lighten the load
a little.

Gary L. Bringhurst

(DISCLAIMER:	My opinions do not, in general, bear any resemblance at all
		to the opinions of my employer, which actually has none.)