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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: cognitive-engineering, connectionism, etc. ...really flame-ola
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[I know I'm going to catch hell from some of the psychologists who work here.]

Didn't theories of connectionism die out in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
Are some of the AI people of today reinventing neural nets?  Didn't Feldman,
Minsky, Norman, and numerous others do all this and hash back and forth
between each other?

From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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