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From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: roger schank
Subject: Re: classic film I <i>The Age of Intelligent Machinesedtli>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:00:46 +0000
There was a shtetl called "chomsk" in Belarus. If that's the one he has in mind, then no connection. My father came from
a shtetl called "Kupil" in western Ukraine. Apart from his parents and siblings, all relatives appear to have been wiped
out, by the Nazis, or the Ukrainians if they got there first. Last known "Khomski" was killed by Ukrainians in 1942.
There's a journalist, Johann Had, who's been tracking all this down, using Yad va-Shem and other records.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 11:42 AM, roger schank < > wrote:
because I criticized him
he has done that to may people
victor yngve worked with him and tried to get computers to use his ranger theory to parse senctences
when he said he couldn't do it (yngve was a smart guy) chomsky got him out of MIT and barred any
linguistics dept from taking him
he found a job in the library school of univ chicago
other linguists (lakoff, fillmore) were banished too, but were so well respected they managed to have great
careers anyway
a quote from a friend of mine: in any field there are 5 or 6 brilliant people, except in linguistics where there is
only one because all others were banished
On Dec 26, 2015, at 10:38 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
why ?
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:36 AM, roger schank < > wrote:
actually I never doubted that; I am sure we are cousins (he looks just like my father whose family was from
the town next to chomsk); my shrink uncle had a field day with the idea that they looked alike when he
first saw chomsky
he has just been vicious to me over the years (e.g. when I moved to NWU he tried to block it)
On Dec 26, 2015, at 10:31 AM, jeffrey E. leevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
i think you and chomsky are more alike than you would find palatable
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:28 AM, roger schank < > wrote:
EFTA00837982
http://www.kurzweilai.net/classic-film-the-age-of-intelligent-machines
just in case you wonder what marvin and I looked and sounded like 30 years ago when AI wasnt stupid
and we werent half dead
Roger Schank
CEO, Socratic Arts Inc
John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education. Northwestern
University
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