velasco@kenallen.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) (03/07/91)
As part of a graduate AI class, I will be working on a semantic network
type of database to answer qeustions about the genealogy of the AI
family of researchers. The more family members we have, the better.
We would like for everyone who has written a thesis in the area of AI
to be in the genealogy.
Minsky, McCarthy, Simon, Newell and other participents in the Dartmouth
conference are to be the patriarchs. Although they obviously decended
from lower order life forms we will not be concerning ourselves with
"missing links."
To begin we would like to have a complete list of all the participants
in the Dartmouth conference. This doesn't seem to be a trivial task.
We would greatly appreciate any help in compiling this list. We are
hoping that some of the people reading this group either participated
in the conference or had a thesis advisor or grand-advisor or
great-grand-advisor that they know for sure was at the conference.
We would also like to have lots of people supply us with their
genealogy to help us come up with a complete family tree. It should be
interesting to find out where all of you are in the tree. The
professor for this class is only two generations away from Simon
through one of his committee members and he didn't even know it until
he started doing this research.
Please take the time to fill out this form so that we can place you in
the AI family tree. The end product will be a system called BIBLIO
which will be put into the public domain. BIBLIO will be a
bibliographic database augmented with "cultural" information. We
believe that this will help us characterize important intellecutal
developments within AI. Of course, we will be able to do regular
familty tree type operations with the data such as printing out the
family tree and stuff like that.
Also, if you know some of these facts about your advisor (committee
members), and their advisors, etc., I would appreciate it if you could
send me that information as well. One of our goals is to trace the
genealogy of today's researchers back as far as possible. If you do
have any of this information, simply duplicate the questionnaire and
fill in a separate copy for each person.
I'm velasco@cs.ucsd.edu
My advisor on this is:
Richard K. Belew
Asst. Professor
Computer Science & Engr. Dept. (C-014)
Univ. Calif. - San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
619/534-2601
619/534-5948 (messages)
rik%cs@ucsd.edu
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AI Genealogy questionnaire
Please complete and return to:
velasco@cs.ucsd.edu
NAME:
Ph.D. year:
Ph.D. thesis title:
Department:
University:
Univ. location:
Thesis advisor:
Advisor's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
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Member's department:
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Member's department:
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Member's department:
Research institution:
Inst. location:
Dates:
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