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[neil]

Hi i am Neil from India. Sr. Lecturer in computer science and somewhat
interested in artificial intelligence concepts. How old is this group?
Can we all introduce ourselves here?

Awaiting a reply.

Neil

[OHex]

Welcome, Neil.

I'm the owner of the group. It had been a mailing list for a while,
and I moved things
to Google Groups earlier this year.

I'm a lecturer in CS as well. I'm more interested both in Hex per se
and also in AI, though I'm far from expert in either one.

The mailing list used to be quite active when there was a lot of play
on Playsite. Then I think people moved to LittleGolem and got out of
the habit of communicating. Things are more quiet now. I miss the
chatter.

++ kevin
http://hex.kosmanor.com/~kevin
http://hex.kosmanor.com/hex-bin/board

[neil]

Hi Kevin !!
I feel great and honored to hear from the owner. I am also not an
expert in any manner, but am interested to learn more and if possible,
go for some research. R u into research? Which country and city r u
from? which university?

I am from Rai Foundation College, Bhopal, India. Ever heard about
Bhopal?

Lets be in touch.

Neil

[Kevin OGorman]

It's a small group.

Check out my University: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman

Sure, I've heard of Bhopal. It's one of the two or three we
hear about from time to time. One of my thesis advisors for
my 2002 PhD was from India as well.

My research activities lately are pretty minimal. What effort
I do expend on it goes into my OHex database on the web.

++ kevin

Kevin O'Gorman, Ph.D. (805) 756-2986 mailto:kogo...@pacbell.net
Home Page: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman

[neil]

Hello Sir !!
Honestly speaking sir i didnt expect u were having grey hairs. Well i
am only 27 and into computer science lecturing from 4 years. When i
started chatting with u i thought u were around my age or
so.....apologies if i said anything wrong.

I wud definitely like to learn a few things from u now. Wud u share ur
knowledge with me?

Regards,
Neil

[OHex]

I try to think young.

I'll answer questions as best I can. What do you want to know?

++ kevin

[neil]

Sir u really not only think young, u r young at heart it seems.

Thanks for the motivation. I am almost uneducated as far as research is
concerned. Only thing intuitive or instinctive feeling I have is that i
can contribute something in artificial intelligence, how to go about it
and what to do is unclear .....

Neil

[OHex]

The usual thing is to pick a topic or topic area, and read everything
you
can find. Once you get very familiar with the territory, you'll have
some
idea of what is known and what is not, and perhaps it will occur to
you:
a question that has not yet been asked that you can find the answer to.

Find the answer, write it up. That's research. Then, for full
benefit, you
have to find someone to publish it. To be taken seriously, it has to
be
subject to peer review by the publisher.

There's a great deal more to be said, but if you're just starting out,
see
if you can do the first step -- get current in something that interests
you.

++ kevin

[neil]

Hi Sir !!
Ur response was so simple and to-the-point. I am really encouraged by
your reply. I will first try to find out what interests me, and i shall
start searching on it. Right sir? wud u mind if i keep updating you abt
wht i am trying out?
R u in California at the moment? Tell me how u manage ur research, job
and family at the same time.

Regards,
Neil

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Neil,

This is getting seriously off-topic.  Please take the rest of this to personal email
until it gets back to Hex.

++ kevin
(kogo...@calpoly.edu)

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