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From: rggoebel@water.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG)
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Subject: Re: AIList Digest   V3 #33
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 10:52:48 EST
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Keywords: AAAI membership Texas Canada
Summary: AAAI membership figures misleading?


Gordon Novak Jr. from Texas observed that the recently published
membership figures places Texas third (in the U.S.) in the number of
``AI people.''  If anyone from AAAI is ``listening,'' perhaps they
would care to produce more detailed figures that would help us
distinguish AI researchers (e.g., university faculty, industrial
researchers with some graduate training) from the more general class of
AI people.

Note that the AAAI membership figures indicate that, on a national basis,
Canada has the second most ``AI people'' in the world;  this makes any
AI review that ignores Canada very suspicious doesn't it? (E.g., look
at Feigenbaum and McCorduck's ``Fifth Generation'' book and its synopsis
of where AI is being done in the world).


Randy Goebel
Logic Programming and Artificial Intelligence Group
Computer Science Department
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1
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