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