Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 08:42:55 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 11:24:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>*) The fact that it is readable to the average laymen is not a requirement of a >>thesis. > >But increases it's value greatly. Unfortunately it is completely impossible in most areas, who other than science students would know what a Hessian matrix is, or how to solve a differential equation. I couldn't write my thesis without it, so I expect it not to be a formal requirement of any kind. >>And I find it very insulting to give a masters degree on the basis of such >junk, some of us actually work hard for that degree you know. > >This is very common. A Masters was awarded to Andy Van De Putte >by the RUG, for Mat(h). It was a Java chess program that did not contain >any new idea (contrary to 'blik'), and was weak and buggy. The promotor >(Veerle Fack) did not understand even the very basics of alphabeta. > >Compared to this, Marcel is a genius. The level in most computer science >departments that deal with AI is of a completely laughable level. > >I don't like this situation either. I did physics. Most of the computer >chess papers would have provoked a 'is this a joke' question from my >professors. Yet, all those people are getting masters degrees. I realize there are different standards across the scientific branches, but I see no original contribution from the author in this case. If this *is* the standard for computer science, or whatever the masters was in, then I need to apologize, but I would be very disappointed if that was the case. >I find it amazing that you are attacking Marcel, when his work wasn't >really that bad. I *wish* there were more 'bad' publications like this. There is nothing wrong with the paper as such, it reminds me of Bruce's tutorial which I like more than most official papers, but to give a masters for it I actually find offensive. It degrads my masters (when I get it) in some way. >I think that if you read through a few ICCA journals, you would >realize that I was being far more objective than you might think. > >The level of most publications there is far below this thesis. Haven't read them, but then I wouldn't expect them to get a degree for it. -S. >-- >GCP
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