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Subject: Re: Most researched area of computer science...computer chess?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:03:57 10/21/03

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On October 21, 2003 at 00:47:53, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 21, 2003 at 00:04:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
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>>By the same measure, the calculation of pi has chess beat by a landslide.
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>:)
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>>I suspect (for instance) that there are ten times as many TSP papers as chess
>>research.
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>TSP is Traveling salesman problem?
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>>My guess is that chess would not even break the top 100, unless you restrict the
>>research to two player zero sum games.
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>Even if you restrict the domain to artificial intelligence?

Yes.

IE expert systems.  Natural language processing/understanding.

Both are huge in terms of man-years of effort expended overall.  Computer
vision and pattern-recognition is another.




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