From: utzoo!decvax!steveg
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Computer Science or Computer Prescience?
Article-I.D.: decvax.237
Posted: Tue Jun 15 21:51:59 1982
Received: Thu Jun 17 04:26:58 1982
References: ihuxi.154

I'm not sure you could call hardware design a pre-paradigm science.
It has become pretty much a normal science, where people who violate
the Von-Neuman rules getting badly bruised. Look at the ammount
of pain Intel has with the 432, which could conceivably start the
next revolution.

AI, though, is your classic pre-paradigm science. I can't yet imagine
AI holding on to one paradigm for more than 3 years. Remember, it
wasn't that long ago that hill-climing, and perceptrons were in
vogue (they still are among a lot of the "yet to die off" generation).

Have the Kuhnians in the audiance read: "Night Thoughts of a Classical
Physicist", I think most would enjoy it.

				- Steven Gutfreund
				  University of Massachusetts,
				  L.O.A DEC Corporate Research