A Critique of ESP

  • Dror G. Feitelson
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 1911)

Abstract

This note is an elaboratin of a panel presentation, and is meant as a constructive critique of ESP. It should be remembered that the bottom line is that ESP is a big step in an important direction – otherwise we wouldn’t bother with this discussion...

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dror G. Feitelson
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  1. 1.School of Computer Science and EngineeringThe Hebrew UniversityJerusalem

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