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From: numork@ndsuvax.UUCP (James Mork)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 19 Nov 88 18:19:50 GMT
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Reply-To: numork@ndsuvax.UUCP (James Mork)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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>
>Dijkstra's favourite dictionary entry is
>    "Intelligent, adj. ... able to perform the functions of a computer ..."
>(Dijkstra doesn't think much of AI...)
>

   Does anyone besides myself have this almost cynical hatred for
   Dijkstra and the way that the Computer Science community revers
   him?  I have seen so many algorithms atributed to Dijkstra that
   have been common solutions in everyday problems for thousands
   of years.  It makes me want to throw up.

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