Re: Fwd: [IP] Re Read re Losing a Generation of Scientists

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Mar 03, 2014; 8:36pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-IP-Re-Read-re-Losing-a-Generation-of-Scientists-tp7585032p7585044.html

On 3/3/14, 8:18 AM, Grant Holland wrote:

I worked for some of the best computer companies around over the next many years (Univac,  Sun Microsystems, (with) Seymour Cray, others) and saw nothing but a steady decline in the centrality of mathematics.

It seems to me what matters is not the centrality of mathematics in computer science but its absolute activity over time (even if it is becoming more dilute in the larger `craft' population of workers).  For example, here's a graph of papers received vs. accepted  from the federated conference on computer science.

https://fedcsis.org/resources/reports/FedCSIS_2013_raport_en.pdf

Not all of the sub-conferences at that meeting would be on formal methods.  These meetings would be more formal than, say, an Apple or Microsoft Developer conference.


Marcus

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