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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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Date: 29 Nov 91 17:14:06 GMT
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In article <1991Nov28.173516.5976@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>In article <5705@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:

>>In the UK, there's already been an attempt to avoid using the term
>>"Artificial Intelligence".  After the Lighthill Report more or less
>>demolished British AI, it seemed better to call it something else
>>when the 5th Generation project led to a revival.  Hence the term
>>IKBS (Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems) and, I suppose, to some
>>extent, the term IT (Information Technology).
>
>The Harvard Bookstore has changed the name of its Artificial Intelligence
>book section to `Cognitive Science' about a year ago; similar trends have
>been observed elsewhere.  Alas, to my ear, `Cognitive Science' and,
>especially `Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems' sound quite as offensive
>as the original.

In Edinburgh, the Department of AI, which is spearate from Computer
Science, remained the Department of AI.  On the other hand, Epistemics
(where linguistics, AI, and philosophy meet) changed its name to
Cognative Science.  I greatly preferred "epistemics".  

Before the Dept. of AI, there were some other interesting names.
There are books in the library marked "Bionics Lab" and others marked
"Metamathematics".  There was meta-maths letterhead paper in my desk
when I first came here (in 1983).  Their interests were fairly broad
in those days.  For instance, the AI library contains books of
Bach fugues and preludes.  (This was before the GEB book.)


