[simonw]

Do you have any further reading on the idea that the term was explicitly avoided in those fields as a result of the AI winter?

I thought the academics kept on using the term, while commercial interests backed away during winter and came rushing back as soon as it was fashionable again.

[jampekka]

The Wikipedia article mentions it: "Many researchers in AI in the mid 2000s deliberately called their work by other names, such as informatics, machine learning, analytics, knowledge-based systems, business rules management, cognitive systems, intelligent systems, intelligent agents or computational intelligence, to indicate that their work emphasizes particular tools or is directed at a particular sub-problem."

Also when I studied these things in the 2000s the program was called "Informatics".

[simonw]

That makes sense, thanks! My university had a course on "intelligent agents" back in ~2002.