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Aaron Sloman

A not very successful attempt to organise my work by topic is in My 'doings' list.

• Research Evaluation/Excellence Framework (REF)? or Research Monitoring Framework (RMF)?
  3 Mar 2008
  Modified version of letter originally posted to UKCRC email list.
  

      Comments on the latest set of proposals for evaluating research
      using more metrics etc. I argue that the objective is wrong and
      research funding should be done on a different basis, with regular
      monitoring and constructive critcism by experts replacing
      management by budget transfers.
  
      This is a sequel to my discussion on top-up fees in 2004.
  

• Position paper for Oxford workshop on Digital Companions
  (26th October 2007)
  

      Why designing good digital companions is very much harder than most
      people think when they design shallow prototypes.
  

• An AI A-level syllabus proposal: (March 2007)
  

      Presenting Artificial Intelligence as a multidisciplinary subject
      including philosophy, cognitive science and programming.
  

• League tables and 'The Trap'
  May 2007

• Academics for Academic Freedom

• Why 'intelligent design' should be taught in schools
  (by atheist scientists)

• Complaints about publishers and copy editors and why academics should resist their pressures.

• Reflections on the future of computer science
  Originally posted to CPHC list.

• Some older provocations (messages) for managers and politicians

Maintained by Aaron Sloman
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham