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You would think the CS discipline, of all disciplines, would be able to expose its history in an easily searchable format.
by kitd 5y ago
You would think the CS discipline, of all disciplines, would be able to expose its history in an easily searchable format.
- Jugurtha 5y agoIronically, if there were a database that would allow querying for this type of things... What's the State of the Art on X ? Where are we on Y ? Has the problem in paper Z been solved ?
- lazide 5y agoCobblers children tend to go without shoes maybe? I suspect some of it is just the joy of solving (or trying to solve the problem) means the unsexy work of digging through hundreds or thousands of old papers gets forgotten. And looking at things with a fresh view (which isn’t going to happen after looking at all those old papers) does have value.
- gnufx 5y agoI think in a lot of cases, it's partly a question of where the material was (on paper, not necessarily in libraries, possibly at obscure conferences). That's the case for a various things I'd like to refer to, and the system I used for physics research was never written up anyway. In this context and example is information on Logica's RAPPORT, allegedly the first commercial, portable RDB, which had some significance in UK research support.
- amw-zero 5y agoSuch a format would not matter, because most programmers are anti-research, anti-math, and anti anything other than shipping Agile software.