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I’d up the ante on the “Manhattan Project of CS”. It’d have to be something that was theoretically possible, but never done before. Like a quantum computer that
by ioblomov 4y ago
I’d up the ante on the “Manhattan Project of CS”. It’d have to be something that was theoretically possible, but never done before. Like a quantum computer that actually works, say, not the toy implementations they’ve built to date.
- kaba0 4y agoI wouldn’t put quantum computers at the forefront of CS, at most it is an intersection between several fields. CS is much more theoretical than engineering.
- saalweachter 4y agoThe Manhattan project wasn't exactly pure theory.
- ioblomov 4y agoFair: CS is a poor analogy. But yeah, Manhattan involved more disciplines than just applied nuclear physics. There was applied chemistry, for example, to purify the isotopes. And von Neumann, Feynman, et. al. had to engineer purpose-built computers for brute-forcing all the differential calculus. And obviously, geology and metallurgy, to find and forge the U and Pu, had to be involved too.