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

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 01:12:38 10/22/03

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On October 21, 2003 at 22:45:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 21, 2003 at 19:43:04, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 2003 at 09:54:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 20, 2003 at 23:51:41, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=304166
>>>>
>>>>"I called computer chess "the most thoroughly researched area within compuer
>>>>science", which is true as CC was born even before computers were created
>>>>(Turing's simulations...)."
>>>>
>>>>Do you agree? Is computer chess the most researched area in artificial
>>>>intelligence? How about in all of computer science?
>>>
>>>
>>>AI:  natural language processing
>>>
>>>Computer Science:  Hard to say but _not_ chess.  IE parallel programming.
>>>Compilers/languages.  Natural language processing.  Expert Systems.  Databases.
>>>Not to mention specific applications such as weather forecasting, simulation,
>>>etc.
>>
>>Yes, but bear in mind that CC is a subfield of computer games, which is a
>>subfield of artificial intelligence...
>>
>>Which other "subfield of subfield" has received so much attention?
>
>
>Natural language processing
>  -- speech recognition

>  -- handwriting recognition
>  -- written text recognition

I have spent a whole year studying image processing and computer vision, OCR
included. As far as I know, OCR is newer than CC, and the ratio of achievements
to research carried out is very low.


>  -- context-sensitive recognition
>
>etc.



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