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> machine learning, logic design, networking algorithms, cryptography, all deeply depend on work done in academia (and not just “theoretical” work) All highly
by tomnipotent 8y ago
> machine learning, logic design, networking algorithms, cryptography, all deeply depend on work done in academia (and not just “theoretical” work)
All highly theoretical fields long before we found concrete applications. It often took one or more people an entire lifetime to convince others than these were valuable subjects to pursue.
> Academia is not only about finding theoretical
No, but it has to start there. Theoretical science is how we find new things to turn into applied science. It required 45+ years between the time Heinrich Hertz introduced contact mechanics and RADAR was put into use, 33 years from when Einstein published mass–energy equivalence (E=mc2) and Otto Hahn cracked nuclear fission but only a few more years until Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan project turned that into the first atom bomb.
- rs86 8y agoLet's add all the work on finding decision procedures for all of mathematics to that list
- barrkel 8y agoNo, but it has to start there. That's simply not true. There's a loop: sometimes, industry comes up with a specific innovation, and academia generalized it; other times, academia comes up with an idea, and it's implemented in industry (often a commercialisation effort by the inventors). And sometimes academics are employed by industry and there's a hybrid. There's no one true way.