Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!Bundy%edxa@ucl-cs.arpa From: Bundy%edxa@ucl-cs.arpa Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog Subject: Shortage of Logic Programmers? Message-ID: <755@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 14:51:39 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.755 Posted: Wed Jun 6 14:51:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 02:12:21 EDT Lines: 29 From: Bundy HPS (on ERCC DEC-10)I realise there is a shortage of people in the logic programming area, but I would not have thought that it was much worse than many other areas of computing, e.g. AI. However, the AI Dept in Edinburgh recently advertised three tenure track lectureships in: logic programming, vision and robotics. The number of candidates applying in each case was: vision 6, robotics 3, and logic programming 0! Now this might have been: (a) a statistical freak (b) a recognition that Edinburgh's reputation is not as strong as it used to be during the golden ages of Kowalski, Warren, Pereira, Byrd and Bowen (c) just a general shortage of LP people. If another note does not bring in some candidates that will be evidence against (a). I will let you know. Against (b) I would have thought our reputation in logic programming was at least of good as that in vision. Does anybody have a feel for whether all the current interest in Prolog is producing some good postgraduate students. If not, then we are failing as a field and ought to do something about it. -- Alan Bundy