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Foundations of Computer Science are not redundant

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Evangelos Milios
5 years ago

Theoretical CS is essential for all CS subfields, including the applied ones.

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Avomn Huxor
5 years ago

If a University does not do the foundations - who will?

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Thiago Nascimento da Silva
5 years ago

If AI is so advanced, it is thanks to foundations.

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Paul Ralph
5 years ago

Ditching foundations of computer science is insane.

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Vlado Keselj
5 years ago

Strong foundations in CS and Math are necessary to make meaningful and lasting contribution to AI.

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Philip Cox
5 years ago

How can a department that calls itself “Computer Science” possibly not include the study of the foundations of the subject?

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Renato Carmo
5 years ago

Department of Informatics, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

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Bernhard von Stengel
5 years ago

Theoretical CS and pure maths form the sharpest minds. Whoever decides this is COMPLETELY CLUELESS about maths and CS.

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Eric Torng
5 years ago

Michigan State University

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Stan
5 years ago

Terrible short-sightednesd on behalf of the university

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Meng He
5 years ago

Without progress in theory research, applied research will eventually slow down and halt.

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Enrico Marchioni
5 years ago

Terrible idea that shows no understanding of how theoretical research drives many of the most fundamental developments in AI. Incompetence at its finest.

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Konstantinos Giannakis
5 years ago

Postdoc, Dept. of mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway This is not rationale. Just keep track of the carrer and achievements of people graduating/majoring in FoCo and rethink this "just theory, no applicability" thing. Do the same research for job postings...

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Alessandro Romeo
5 years ago

without basic research it is simply impossible to do applied research.

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Ivan Visconti
5 years ago

Highly theoretical research is essential for progress and innovations in the long run. Professor of Computer Science, University of Salerno

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Alessandra Di Pierro
5 years ago

This is simply not acceptable

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Vasco Brattka
5 years ago

Professor, Department of Computer Science, UniBw Munich This seems to be based on a short-sighted and ill-informed plan and compromises excellence instead of furthering it.

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Esteban Feuerstein
5 years ago

Argentina

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Stefano Federici
5 years ago

Stefano Federici, Reasercher in CS, Univ. Cagliari

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Binhai Zhu
5 years ago

It is ok to focus on data science, etc, but FoCo research is definitely not redundant.