I think continuing to use the AI namespace is correct. I was agreeing with another poster who (I think) also had this position. The fact that AI had too much hype does not mean the name is the wrong one.
(Aside: Years from now we'll probably still use the term "web services" even though that term also is associated with more hype than it can support.) Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steven Tolkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V8D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paris Sinclair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:03 PM > To: Tolkin, Steve > Cc: Perl-AI > Subject: RE: An ML:: namespace? > > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > > > I completely agree. Both people who > > know AI and its history, and people who do not, > > are likely to look for, or at least notice, AI. > > ML will not do that. > > MachineLearning might -- but that is > > not the only possible candidate. > > For example to avoid the poor connotations of > > "Data Mining" the ACM named its special interest group > > SIGKDD, where KDD stands for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. > > > > There are many other terms that cover some or most > > of this area -- but only AI has > > widespread name recognition. > > > > I agree that adding subcategories below AI can be useful. > > But I too would expect AI::ML to be about the language > > ML. > > > > > > Hopefully helpfully yours, > > Steve > > -- > > Steven Tolkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-563-0516 > > Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V8D Boston MA 02109 > > There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments > are by me, > > not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > > That was part of the original point, that because of the > nonsense around > the term AI, that something lower profile would be better. > > So when you say "but only AI has widespread name recognition," are you > agreeing with the proposal, or disagreeing with it? > > -- > Paris >
