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- From: stas@netcom.com (Stanislav Malyshev)
- Subject: Re: Grad school comments
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.024254.20056@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.150247.3613@aisb.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.191814.10733@rchland.ibm.com> <2B0917E4.DC7@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:42:54 GMT
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- In article <2B0917E4.DC7@deneva.sdd.trw.com> shrdlu@willow.sdd.trw.com (Lynda L. True) writes:
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- >Yeah, right. In the past ten years, I've worked with lots and lots of people.
- >They didn't have graduate degrees for the most part, and they have had great
- >careers. In fact, the only person that I've known who has an AI background and
- >is also out of work has a doctorate.
- >
- >Think about it. PhD => Research or Teaching... Not $$$$$$$$
- >
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- One should make a distinction between being a qualified researcher in, say,
- AI, and "having a great career" in some company that does AI-related things.
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- Some MBA who'd taken an intro to AI course in school, and who is climbing
- up the corporate command structure, is still a marketroid, as such is
- useless to society, and is NOT having a great career in AI though he
- may be a pencil pusher for an AI department.
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- -S
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