Comments on: About the most important problem in computer science http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/ What and why and more about computer science Fri, 01 May 2009 15:19:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mary http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-324 mary Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:57:31 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-324 richard hamming asked it in his speech “you and your research”. About the most important problem in computer science « figuring out computer science this blog was founded to collect answers to one question richard hamming asked it in his speech “you and your research”.
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]]> By: Family Resource http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-128 Family Resource Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:46:05 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-128 Thank you for correct my misconcept. I am either a computer scientist or engineer by nature. But as a cancer research, i am interesting in the web and want to make it more usable to most of people. Thank you for correct my misconcept. I am either a computer scientist or engineer by nature. But as a cancer research, i am interesting in the web and want to make it more usable to most of people.

]]> By: Dave http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-127 Dave Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:37:32 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-127 <i> you proposed the key point in computer science, too complex for most people. Computers, in my opinion, should be a tool for everybody. How to make simplest UI, both PC and Web, will be the major work. </i> But that, by my reckoning, is not computer science. That's interface engineering. That's applied psychology. Part of the problem is that CS, as a department in a university, is part hacking, part software engineering, and part mathematics put into the wrong building. This leads to associating things with computer science that are really just computing. P ?= NP is a computer science problem. Making computers into devices that change our life for the better is an engineering problem, a usability problem. For example, I'm going to the gym now, and while I probably won't buy it, I've been looking at Nike+. There's shoes with a pocket for a widget, a widget that tells your iPod how much you've run, and your iPod. Getting the shoe part and the iPod to communicate is a signals problem. Making a dingus that can translate shocks to distance and calorie burn is an engineering problem. Displaying the summary when you're done is the computer science problem, and it's essentially "Hello World". you proposed the key point in computer science, too complex for most people. Computers, in my opinion, should be a tool for everybody. How to make simplest UI, both PC and Web, will be the major work.

But that, by my reckoning, is not computer science. That’s interface engineering. That’s applied psychology.

Part of the problem is that CS, as a department in a university, is part hacking, part software engineering, and part mathematics put into the wrong building. This leads to associating things with computer science that are really just computing. P ?= NP is a computer science problem. Making computers into devices that change our life for the better is an engineering problem, a usability problem.

For example, I’m going to the gym now, and while I probably won’t buy it, I’ve been looking at Nike+. There’s shoes with a pocket for a widget, a widget that tells your iPod how much you’ve run, and your iPod. Getting the shoe part and the iPod to communicate is a signals problem. Making a dingus that can translate shocks to distance and calorie burn is an engineering problem. Displaying the summary when you’re done is the computer science problem, and it’s essentially “Hello World”.

]]> By: Family Resource http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-111 Family Resource Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:14:40 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-111 you proposed the key point in computer science, too complex for most people. Computers, in my opinion, should be a tool for everybody. How to make simplest UI, both PC and Web, will be the major work. On my homepage, i selected ca 140 websites, which in my opinion, can serve most people most of the time, I also set a search tool. I found this is very useful for me andh ope will be useful for many other people. please have a look, topwebsitesGuide.com your comments are greatly welcome. you proposed the key point in computer science, too complex for most people. Computers, in my opinion, should be a tool for everybody. How to make simplest UI, both PC and Web, will be the major work.

On my homepage, i selected ca 140 websites, which in my opinion, can serve most people most of the time, I also set a search tool. I found this is very useful for me andh ope will be useful for many other people.

please have a look, topwebsitesGuide.com your comments are greatly welcome.

]]> By: Don Knuth on progress in computer science « figuring out computer science http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-104 Don Knuth on progress in computer science « figuring out computer science Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:15:14 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-104 [...] corrected my use of the quotes and then goes on to reply to my question “what are the most important problems in computer science?“, inspired by a talk of Richard Hamming. I admire Dick Hamming enormously, but i disagree [...] [...] corrected my use of the quotes and then goes on to reply to my question “what are the most important problems in computer science?“, inspired by a talk of Richard Hamming. I admire Dick Hamming enormously, but i disagree [...]

]]> By: d135-1r43 » Blog Archive » Figuring Out Computer Science http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-63 d135-1r43 » Blog Archive » Figuring Out Computer Science Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:09:08 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-63 [...] Andi had a great idea. He asked some well-known computer scientists via email the following question: What are the most important problems in computer science? [...] [...] Andi had a great idea. He asked some well-known computer scientists via email the following question: What are the most important problems in computer science? [...]

]]> By: Andreas http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-43 Andreas Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:38:15 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-43 It could help massively, mind, but what if P != NP? That doesn't help at all. It could help massively, mind, but what if P != NP? That doesn’t help at all.

]]> By: mind http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-41 mind Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:13:49 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-most-important-problem-in-computer-science/#comment-41 P ?= NP is the biggest problem. (then again i'm a crypto guy so i may be biased) all of these other problems are optimization problems. if these were tractable by non-heuristic methods (researchers trying various things and seeing what got accepted), we could develop the ideal language/interface/etc P ?= NP is the biggest problem. (then again i’m a crypto guy so i may be biased)

all of these other problems are optimization problems. if these were tractable by non-heuristic methods (researchers trying various things and seeing what got accepted), we could develop the ideal language/interface/etc

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