[Sigia-l] RE: first principals

[George Olsen]

On 3/14/03 10:12 AM, "Anne Hjortshoj" <anne at mindstorm.com> wrote:
> Just a note - IR (Information Retrieval) is an area of computer science

> ... just wanted to point out that the term is already in use in another
> field.

Just as the job title IA itself is used in software engineering to refer to
a completely different set of responsibilities. Hence periodic wailing in
the past about job postings that seemed completely out-of-sync with our
notions of IA. The posting _were_ for a different job.

George