I talked with Chuck when he visited China in 2010 just months after he was awarded Turing. He was a really nice guy. It is funny to talk with him. He joked tha

I talked with Chuck when he visited China in 2010 just months after he was awarded Turing. He was a really nice guy. It is funny to talk with him. He joked that he was an unfortunate guy because he always invented something decades of years ahead of mainstream era. And the secret of so many original inventions? Read the original papers, the very old ones in various fields and learn how people initially thought, and why they failed.