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Foundations of Computer Science are not redundant

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Morgan FOUQUE
5 years ago

As a commercial decision this is excellent. As a strategic decision this is a pure catastrophe.

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Tristan Crolard
5 years ago

Professor of Computer Science, CNAM, Paris

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Sven Fiergolla
5 years ago

computer science student in Trier, Germany, i support this petition

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Romain Péchoux
5 years ago

Associate Professor, University of Lorraine

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Pascal Berthomé
5 years ago

Prof in Computer Science, INSA Centre Val de Loire Remove foundations, nothing concrete remains.

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Jane Pitts-Tucker
5 years ago

Freedom of research is essential for progress.

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Stephanie Blaauw
5 years ago

Education & research needs always to be as broad as possible. The concentration of research onto AI is short-sighted and potentially disastrous.

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Colin RIBA
5 years ago

MCF LIP - ENS de Lyon

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Vincent Penelle
5 years ago

Associate Professor, Université de Bordeaux

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Olivier Togni
5 years ago

Professor of Computer Science, University of Burgundy

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Leo Liberti
5 years ago

The "visibility" of AI and data science is mostly buzzword-based, amplified by tech firms such as IBM which profit from them. Many technical directors in the service industry came to me complaining that ML does not hold the promise of the associated mediatic communication. What will your department look like when the buzzword craze blows over, if you remove mathematics and FOCS? If budget obliges, it would be much smarter to resize rather than remove these departments.

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Rida Laraki
5 years ago

Without fundamental mathematics or computer science, there will be no IA algorithms, no computational modelling... no Turing, No Newton, no Darwin... I think it would be best to stop giving the decision power to ignorant managers!

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Michel Koskas
5 years ago

What a thoughtless policy. A shame, a crime against human spirit. AI would NEVER allowed to discover the laws of gravity.

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Professor Martin K Jensen
5 years ago

Were the industrial stake-holders even asked? I'd imagine that if they were, they would strongly oppose any move towards stopping research that is "highly theoretical and not directly linked with applications"

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Fundamentals of computer science are not redundant

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Gengshi HUANG
5 years ago

Mathematics is crown of science

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Yanting Pan
5 years ago

I love those teachers and professors who have helped me lot in my academic life in UOL

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adam
5 years ago

dont agree

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Ting Xu
5 years ago

Disagree

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Fu Han
5 years ago

A university should be visionary