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From: andrew@trlamct.OZ.AU (Andrew Jennings)
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Subject: Time Magazine -- Computers of the Future
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Date: 28 Mar 88 16:52:38 GMT
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I managed to read all of this. As fate would have it I was stranded all morning
at an airport waiting for a plane, and the issue of Time was on the newstands.

I guess you have to allow for a fair bit of hype in these things. Even so the
article on AI seemed fairly over-optimistic to me. Sure there are many "second-
wave" applications of expert systems out there, but there are also a lot of 
research issues open. 

I'd recommend the articles, and the picture of DeKleer's socks is also worthwile.





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