Comments on: Don Knuth on progress in computer science http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-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: Dave http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-126 Dave Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:56:23 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-126 <i> It’s still all slowly incremental though. The whole standards-compliant web movement is achieved one blog design at a time </i> The internet wants to be the Semantic Web! It’s still all slowly incremental though. The whole standards-compliant web movement is achieved one blog design at a time

The internet wants to be the Semantic Web!

]]> By: Top Posts « WordPress.com http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-125 Top Posts « WordPress.com Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:34:18 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-125 [...] Don Knuth on progress in computer science This blog led me to a premiere: My first letter written with TeX. Guess whom i sent this letter? Don Knuth, inventor of […] [...] [...] Don Knuth on progress in computer science This blog led me to a premiere: My first letter written with TeX. Guess whom i sent this letter? Don Knuth, inventor of […] [...]

]]> By: Tony http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-123 Tony Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:13:09 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-123 I like that "Programming 2.0" type of an idea. The field does seem to be heading in a more social direction. Open source projects, individual published plugins, and lots and lots of APIs, full of mashup possibilities! It's still all slowly incremental though. The whole standards-compliant web movement is achieved one blog design at a time ;) I like that “Programming 2.0″ type of an idea. The field does seem to be heading in a more social direction. Open source projects, individual published plugins, and lots and lots of APIs, full of mashup possibilities!

It’s still all slowly incremental though. The whole standards-compliant web movement is achieved one blog design at a time ;)

]]> By: ricochet105 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-122 ricochet105 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:16:04 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-122 progress in using computers is exponential, we can never know what will come up in the next few years! progress in using computers is exponential, we can never know what will come up in the next few years!

]]> By: Andreas http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-118 Andreas Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:28:43 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-118 It's my german shining through, Andrew. Our "ich" is capitalized like every other word. This is one of the strange things in english and I often forget about it. Fixed it. It’s my german shining through, Andrew. Our “ich” is capitalized like every other word. This is one of the strange things in english and I often forget about it. Fixed it.

]]> By: Mark Bradley http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-117 Mark Bradley Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:35:50 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-117 I think seeing the future of computing is like seeing the future of the stock market. There is no deteriministic way to predict a large group of people working in a field over the span of more than a year. Keep fighting the good fight though. I think seeing the future of computing is like seeing the future of the stock market. There is no deteriministic way to predict a large group of people working in a field over the span of more than a year.

Keep fighting the good fight though.

]]> By: Robert H. Goretsky http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-116 Robert H. Goretsky Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:23:17 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-116 Its a sort of 'Programming 2.0' model that we have now -- collaboration is key to accomplishing meaningful goals. Quite a difference from when, say Linus Torvalds wrote a kernel essentially on his own. While programming has never really been considered 'social', I think we're going to see it head in that direction more and more in the upcoming years.. <b>Comment by Robert H. Goretsky of Hoboken, NJ</b> Its a sort of ‘Programming 2.0′ model that we have now — collaboration is key to accomplishing meaningful goals. Quite a difference from when, say Linus Torvalds wrote a kernel essentially on his own. While programming has never really been considered ’social’, I think we’re going to see it head in that direction more and more in the upcoming years..

Comment by Robert H. Goretsky of Hoboken, NJ

]]> By: warpedvisions.org » Blog Archive » Quote: Knuth on small steps http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-115 warpedvisions.org » Blog Archive » Quote: Knuth on small steps Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:42:10 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-115 [...] September 18th, 2007 in Quotes I firmly believe that computer science advances by thousands of people solving small problems, which go together and create a massive edifice. Every year that goes by, hardly anything is done that appears to be a milestone worthy of mass attention; yet after five or ten years pass, the whole field has changed significantly. – Donald Knuth (via) [...] [...] September 18th, 2007 in Quotes I firmly believe that computer science advances by thousands of people solving small problems, which go together and create a massive edifice. Every year that goes by, hardly anything is done that appears to be a milestone worthy of mass attention; yet after five or ten years pass, the whole field has changed significantly. – Donald Knuth (via) [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-113 Andrew Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:08:37 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-113 Are you intentionally not capitalising the word 'I' throughout, or is it just a series of mistakes? (I ask because if there is some movement away from capitalising names then I would like to know about it.) Are you intentionally not capitalising the word ‘I’ throughout, or is it just a series of mistakes? (I ask because if there is some movement away from capitalising names then I would like to know about it.)

]]> By: foo http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-112 foo Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:44:24 +0000 http://focs.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/don-knuth-on-progress-in-computer-science/#comment-112 hi, do you mind posting a higher resolution version of that paper, so that it can be read? thank you. hi,
do you mind posting a higher resolution version of that paper, so that it can be read?

thank you.

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