Do you have any further reading on the idea that the term was explicitly avoided in those fields as a result of the AI winter?
I thought the academics kept on using the term, while commercial interests backed away during winter and came rushing back as soon as it was fashionable again.
The Wikipedia article mentions it: "Many researchers in AI in the mid 2000s deliberately called their work by other names, such as informatics, machine learning, analytics, knowledge-based systems, business rules management, cognitive systems, intelligent systems, intelligent agents or computational intelligence, to indicate that their work emphasizes particular tools or is directed at a particular sub-problem."
Also when I studied these things in the 2000s the program was called "Informatics".
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Do you have any further reading on the idea that the term was explicitly avoided in those fields as a result of the AI winter?
I thought the academics kept on using the term, while commercial interests backed away during winter and came rushing back as soon as it was fashionable again.
The Wikipedia article mentions it: "Many researchers in AI in the mid 2000s deliberately called their work by other names, such as informatics, machine learning, analytics, knowledge-based systems, business rules management, cognitive systems, intelligent systems, intelligent agents or computational intelligence, to indicate that their work emphasizes particular tools or is directed at a particular sub-problem."
Also when I studied these things in the 2000s the program was called "Informatics".
That makes sense, thanks! My university had a course on "intelligent agents" back in ~2002.