<div dir="ltr">Yeah, it seems like the premise of the cartoon, or maybe Jochen's interpretation, was that people have limited scopes of application, and the average scope of application doesn't include interdisciplinary research.  But there are people who have larger scope and have a lot of fun doing interdisciplinary projects.  And if an interdisciplinary group can adapt to its participant areas of strength, lots of interesting things can happen.  <div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I didn't read the article but Carnegie Mellon, where I worked for almost 20 years, prides itself on the amount of interdisciplinary research accomplished there..  Herb Simon had appointments in psychology, computer science, business and public policy, I believe.  I was a coauthor of papers in robotics, public policy, computer science and philosophy.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 1:54 PM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net" target="_blank">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Tom Gauld describes most of the problems of interdisciplinary research in a single image</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2389834-tom-gauld-on-areas-of-expertise/" target="_blank">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2389834-tom-gauld-on-areas-of-expertise/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .<br>
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