This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the
question "Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and
so many are forgotten in the long run?" From his more than forty years
of experience, thirty of which were at Bell Laboratories, he has made
a number of direct observations, asked very pointed questions of
scientists about what, how, and why they did things, studied the
lives of great scientists and great contributions, and has done introspection
and studied theories of creativity. The talk is about what he has
learned in terms of the properties of the individual scientists, their
abilities, traits, working habits, attitudes, and philosophy.
Francesco Biscani on 15 Jun 10As discussed during lunchtime...
andreiaries on 15 Jun 10"Development work that requires an Internet connection is transferred across the border to China." What are programmers doing 'while the code is compiling'? Play table tennis?
LeopoldS on 15 Jun 10fantastic ... I particularly like: "Kim Jong Il, the de-facto leader of the country, declared people who couldn't use computers to be one of the three fools of the 21st century. (The others, he said, are smokers and those ignorant of music.)"
