Research into the foundations of computer science is essential for the field.
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Daniele Scrimieri
5 years ago
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Bradford
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Valentin Cassano
5 years ago
Adding to why dropping research in foundations of computer science is short-sighted is Vardi's article '
On the Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science'.
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Joshua Chen
5 years ago
This is extremely short-sighted. How the university can expect to become a leading center in AI, data science and computational modeling without a research group in the foundations underpinning long-term advances in these areas is beyond me.
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Al Vilcius
5 years ago
Killing foundational research is just moronic.
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Andrew Rau-Chaplin
5 years ago
In a field evolving as fast as computer science, it is its fundamental abstraction and core that holds it together. Untethered from those foundations it will quickly lose its way. This is not a time to be pulling back from FoCo.
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Derek Reilly
5 years ago
I'm a Human-Computer Interaction professor and can't imagine a CS program that doesn't teach and advance fundamental computer science.
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Dr Nicolai Kraus
5 years ago
How would groundbreaking advances in AI and data science be possible without foundations? The CV's proposal seems very unhelpful for the future of CS, no matter whether one is ultimately only interested in applications.
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Jeff Erickson
5 years ago
Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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David Korczynski
5 years ago
FoCo remains a hugely important piece of modern technology and should not be removed.
CEO Ada Logics
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Xiang Yu
5 years ago
FoCo shouldn’t be redundant.
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Xiang Yu
5 years ago
FoCo shouldn’t be rebundant
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Michiel Smid
5 years ago
Professor of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Markus Siegle
5 years ago
How would all those beautiful areas of application have developed without previous research on their foundations?
Markus Siegle, professor of computer science at Bundeswehr University Munich
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Robert Kleinberg
5 years ago
Professor of Computer Science
Cornell University
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Kazunori Ueda
5 years ago
CS is a trinity of theory, practice and art. Lacking either of them would result in an ugly shape.
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Henrik Nilsson
5 years ago
Theory is not a nice extra. It is fundamental. At has been proven over and over. Even if applications might.lag behind. Witness number theory that even 19th gentry mathematicians often considered inapplicable. And witness the dire need for firm foundations for AI and machine learning.
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Carsten Fuhs
5 years ago
FoCo is an area that has just recently been awared an EPSRC grant of over GBP 6,000,000, on the basis of originally highly theoretical and foundational research, in collaboration with AI-driven industry partners such as Facebook and Amazon - this should indicate the deep relevance of FoCo for the strategic priorities of U Leicester: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/R006865/1
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Anonymous
5 years ago
What a loss Leicester plans for itself.
I guess this is how something collapses: it makes the wrong decisions about where its own potential lies, focusing on maximizing short-term gains at the expense of its own future. I hope the administration reconsiders!
This is a very short-sighted strategy which will damage the renown of the university.
Pure mathematics and fundamentals of computer science are essential in the long run to develop applications further.
Franz Merkl, Full Professor, Mathematical Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich
Research into the foundations of computer science is essential for the field.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Bradford
Adding to why dropping research in foundations of computer science is short-sighted is Vardi's article ' On the Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science'.
This is extremely short-sighted. How the university can expect to become a leading center in AI, data science and computational modeling without a research group in the foundations underpinning long-term advances in these areas is beyond me.
Killing foundational research is just moronic.
In a field evolving as fast as computer science, it is its fundamental abstraction and core that holds it together. Untethered from those foundations it will quickly lose its way. This is not a time to be pulling back from FoCo.
I'm a Human-Computer Interaction professor and can't imagine a CS program that doesn't teach and advance fundamental computer science.
How would groundbreaking advances in AI and data science be possible without foundations? The CV's proposal seems very unhelpful for the future of CS, no matter whether one is ultimately only interested in applications.
Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
FoCo remains a hugely important piece of modern technology and should not be removed. CEO Ada Logics
FoCo shouldn’t be redundant.
FoCo shouldn’t be rebundant
Professor of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
How would all those beautiful areas of application have developed without previous research on their foundations? Markus Siegle, professor of computer science at Bundeswehr University Munich
Professor of Computer Science Cornell University
CS is a trinity of theory, practice and art. Lacking either of them would result in an ugly shape.
Theory is not a nice extra. It is fundamental. At has been proven over and over. Even if applications might.lag behind. Witness number theory that even 19th gentry mathematicians often considered inapplicable. And witness the dire need for firm foundations for AI and machine learning.
FoCo is an area that has just recently been awared an EPSRC grant of over GBP 6,000,000, on the basis of originally highly theoretical and foundational research, in collaboration with AI-driven industry partners such as Facebook and Amazon - this should indicate the deep relevance of FoCo for the strategic priorities of U Leicester: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/R006865/1
What a loss Leicester plans for itself. I guess this is how something collapses: it makes the wrong decisions about where its own potential lies, focusing on maximizing short-term gains at the expense of its own future. I hope the administration reconsiders!
This is a very short-sighted strategy which will damage the renown of the university. Pure mathematics and fundamentals of computer science are essential in the long run to develop applications further. Franz Merkl, Full Professor, Mathematical Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich