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You first sentences already suggest one comparison between the histories of computing and philosophy: history of computing ought to be much easier. Most of it i
by andrewflnr 1y ago
You first sentences already suggest one comparison between the histories of computing and philosophy: history of computing ought to be much easier. Most of it is still in living memory. Yet somehow, the philosophy people manage it while we computing people rarely bother.
- markus_zhang 1y agoI always think it is great value to have a whole range of history of X courses. I once thought about a series of PHYS classes that focus on historical ideas and experiments. Students are supposed to replicate the experiments. They have to read book chapters and papers.
- andrewflnr 1y agoThat's not that far off the standard physics course, is it? Certainly lots of labs I took were directly based on historical experiments.
- vintermann 1y agoHistory of physics is another history where we have been extremely dependent on the "substrate". Better instruments and capacity to analyze results, obviously, but also advances in mathematics.