From: Ian Nelson <"Ian Nelson">
To: Peter Horan <peter@Deakin.Edu.Au>
Subject: Re: Technical Professionals and the humanities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?)
Date: 1997/07/29
Date: 1997-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33DE91A2.6CC0@ibm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5qunom$ler$1@miranda.its.deakin.edu.au
Peter Horan wrote:
>
> > In article <33CECAB3.2AB8@sig.please>, look@sig.please says...
> >
> > [On Richard Feynman]
> >
> > >OK, he wasn't a computer scientist, but it's interesting anyway.
> >
> > Actually he was, in later years. He did some consulting for Thinking
> > Machines. I saw a TV programme where one of the people at TM talked
> > about Feynman's work with them. Apparently Feynman proposed an
> > improved architecture for the machine after doing some maths that
> > involved the number of 1s in the computer.
>
> I think he also ran the calculating lab at Los Alamos during the
> second world war. I forget the details, but computing existed
> before the electronic brain.
Yep, he optimized problems into something the computers could solve in a
reasonable amount of time. I've also read about him beating computers
at determining some things.
Either way, if he was still around, I'd pick him for my team if the
project had nothing to do with physics, math, or computers.
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1997-07-21 0:00 Technical Professionals and the humanities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?) Peter Horan
1997-07-23 0:00 ` Tal Garfinkel
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