TGTRAJU%CALSTATE.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (10/27/87)
I highly recommend this months issue of scientific americsn to those intrested in the future trends of compting and computer technology. raj bhatt instructional support group san jose state univ. (408) 924-2377 tgtraju@calstate -- Bitnet
bryson@tahoe.UUCP (10/28/87)
I would like to insert my comments on the articles in the Scientific American
mentioned above.
First, they seem to be flooded with references of research at IBM with very
little mention of research at other locations (except some at NASA).
Second, many of the articles (the first in the set most obviously) make claims
which are not and cannot be substantiated. The first article even defines
lithography as the process by which microchips are etched. This caught my
attention because my father is an Offset Lithographer and I am therefore
familiar with the term. I feel that the term "lithography" applies to far
more than just the process of etching microchips. Also, I seem to remember
a reference to judging the power of a high-level language by the size of the
program required to solve a given problem. Does this mean that if I design
a language which is designed to calculate the number of bites of pizza in
a given pizza in which the only keyword is <CR>, which returns the value
and solves the problem would be an incredibly powerful language because the
program size would be very small (one character)?
I have many more objections to these articles, but I won't bore you with them.
Suffice it to say that I would question the accuracy of the articles based
on the things I know to be true which misrepresented, wrong, or whatever.
Derry Bryson
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe
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Derry Bryson -- bryson@tahoe.unr.edu (I think)
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