Thursday, July 20, 2006

Lunch with a AAAI Fellow

I had the pleasure of participating the "Lunch with a AAAI Fellow" event yesterday. We were fortunate enough to meet not one but two AAAI Fellows, Dr. Marty Tenenbaum and Dr. Harry G. Barrow. We were taken to a nice seafood restaurant where we had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of topics with the fellows. Both Dr. Tenenbaum and Dr. Barrow were very insightful and a provided a lot of very useful advice about our own research and the research career in general.

I feel very priviledged to have been given this opportunity and I would like to thank Dr. Tenenbaum and Dr. Barrow again for their time and the effort they put into this event.

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Blogger Mentifex said...

Let's open up for debate the idea of whether there should even be a group of "AAAI Fellows." About fifteen years ago, the AAAI honchos voted in a select number of themsleves as "Fellows" of the AAAI. I was so disgusted by the whole process that I quit the AAAI. There were suddenly too many chiefs and too few Indians. You dues-paying students are being ripped off by being asked to support an elitist, Establishment organization that puts you down on the bottom as dues-paying suckers while the tenured, self-perpetuating, self-congratulating upper crust makes no appreciable progress towards True AI but nevertheless votes in their cronies each year as a new roster of AI Mafia "made" men and women. Next time you have lunch with an AAAI Fellow, ask him or her how they have the gall, the unmitigated chutzpah, to set themselves as Chiefs above you good-for-nothing-but-paying-dues Indians. If you do not get a satisfactory answer, shake the dust from your shoes and quit the AAAI as I did -- in disgust.

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