From NIGEL ALLINSON
Feedback (26 January) makes fun of our job advertisement in IEE’s Recritment.
The background to this ‘odd’ advert is that it was for a research associate
position on a SERC grant (an odd occurrence in itself) for the development
of a cellular automata computer. The odd bits arose from the use of a spelling
checker – ‘automata’ became ‘automate’ and ‘fuzzy logic’ became ‘fussy logic’.
An identical advert appeared in The guardian without any problems, but it’s
well known the The Grauniad does not use a spelling checker.
Nigel Allison University of York
