From cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Thu May 29 16:30:21 1997 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Received: from oolong.camellia.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oolong.camellia.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA19799; Thu, 29 May 1997 16:30:21 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org To: Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU From: Wei-Hwa Huang Subject: Re: rumor control Date: 29 May 1997 19:55:39 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-ID: <5mkmvr$b2v@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pyro.ugcs.caltech.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Richard E Korf writes: >Dear Cube-Lovers, > Apparently some work I did recently has gotten badly mangled by the press. My symphathies. I remember a news article a few years ago when the largest Mersenne prime was discovered; it went something like: "Mathematicians have discovered a number that has 224,375 digits and is divisible by 1." > A paper on this work will be presented at the National Conference on >Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97) in Providence, RI in July. I'd be happy to >send a postscript copy of the paper to anyone who is interested, unless there >are a lot of requests, in which case I'll just post it on my web site and put a >pointer here. In addition, if there is enough interest, I could write a short >summary of the paper for this list. Thanks for your attention. Please do so. I am sure many people on this list would be interested in seeing it. -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. -- Engineer's Motto