[Sigia-l] Programming IAs was: Little things an IA MUST know/do

[donna at maadmob.net]

I know it is late and I'm sleepy. 

But, how is IA more scientific than programming? I'm an IA mostly, and a 
programmer not at all (but I do tutor HCI to computing students and I have a 
decent understanding of the work that the programmers I work with do). I'd 
say that their work is a lot more scientific than mine. 

Maybe you are thinking of the research that I would do being part of a more 
scientific method...

Donna

On 29 Apr 2003 at 12:06, Jon Hanna wrote:

> One thought I'd like to throw into this discussion is that the relationship
> between programming and IA is, of course, going to change dramatically. IA
> is currently a lot more scientific than programming. Some of that is likely
> to always remain (new technologies generally impact more on the
> possibilities and challenges to usability and organisation and less on the
> code needed to make them go and hence the need for fresh experimentation
> will likely always be greater with IA), but increasingly there will be
> things that IAs will be able to use with little or no testing and IA will
> move away from science and towards craft.