Building a community

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing has accomplished a lot, but we still have far to go in building a community. I was reminded of this earlier this year when I attended a workshop on a topic within the scope of AI EDAM's coverage. In addition to engineers and educators, workshop speakers included a linguist studying languages used by professionals, an ethnographer studying CAD users and a psychologist studying innovation. All three social scientists started their presentations essentially the same way: