From: tm@rice.edu   
      
   gyll@iname.com (Gyll) wrote in message news:<40e7597e$1@news.unimelb.edu.au>...   
   > bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström) wrote in message news:<   
   0d6774e$1@news.unimelb.edu.au>...   
   > > gyll@iname.com (Gyll) writes:   
   > >   
   > > > Does anybody know any live AI chatroom   
   > > > I know there is such thing on undernet (and on EFNet and prolly other   
   > > > IRC nets too), but there's never anything going on there   
   > >   
   > > I don't know how busy it is, but it's quite a few people in #ai on   
   > > freenode.net·   
   > >   
   >   
   > checked the place out for the past week or so and there's ABSOLUTELY   
   > NOTHING going on. I think this is symptomatic for just how much of a   
   > niche segment all this AI thingie is...   
   >   
      
   Umm...I think you are totally wrong here.  Just because there is no   
   active irc channel on a topic doesn't really mean much about it.  It   
   is really just more indicative that the kinds of people who do AI are   
   a lot less likely to hang out in irc chat rooms.  It is a more   
   academic field than, say, Linux (if you want to call that a 'field'),   
   which has a popular #linux chatroom because linux users aren't   
   necessarily professors and graduate students in an academic setting   
   whereas AI tends to be that way.   
      
   I haven't seen many (or any actually) channels on sensor networks, yet   
   the field is definitely becoming a large research area...as another   
   example.   
      
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