Letters

Editor: We would like to thank you for your part in a recent result of special personal significance. The intensive mutual investigation inspired by our first meeting at a AAAI'87 reception has culminated in our marriage last week As we enjoy our honevmoon in Maui, we are grateful to you for helping us solve this previously open problem in parallel search Sincerely, lack Mostow and fanet Tyroler Mostow Rutgers University, Hill Center Busch Campus, Computer Science Dept New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Editor: The medium has misplaced the message [that should have appeared in Winter 1988, p. 41 that I am now an assistant professor at the Ohio State University's LAIR, where connectionism is merely irreverent, not irrelevant, to AI fordan Pollack Computer and Information Science Dept, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 Editor: The Winter 1988 issue of AI Magazine carried a report I coauthored reporting on the June, 1987 Workshop on Theoretical Issues in Conceptual Information Processing. Despite the many chances I had to fix the manuscript, I somehow managed to miss an error that crept in and changed the intended meaning rather drastically in the section "From the Workshop Chair," by B. Chandrasekaran. A sentence in that section as published reads: "The goal of these gatherings has been to understand intelligence and cognition as feasible computations as they apply to the construction of performance programs for narrowly defined tasks (expert systems)." The sentence as originally written by Chandrasekaran read: "The goal of these investigations has been understanding intelligence and cognition as feasible computations, as opposed to the construction of performance programs for narrowly defined tasks (expert systems) or formalization per se " As readers can see, quite a difference in meaning His goal was to characterize how the shared goals of the participants in the TICIP series differ from some other groups of researchers in AI.