Friday, March 24, 2006

paradigm shift: why 'fear of engineering'

mar 24th

it should also be 'fear of computer science'.

the computer scientists are bringing out fundamental new approaches that affect everything.

examples:
the open-source approach being used in other fields
the use of computerized proofs eg in the four color theorem when formal proofs were not forthcoming. proof by existence is a new model in mathematics
my explanation for why the distributed system of hinduism was more robust than the centralized system of buddhism when mohammedans attacked

no wonder the flat-earth types like witzel and thapar are so foul-mouthed in attacking computing types. they are seeing the death throes of their creationist fantasies.

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5655067

although coming from microsoft this is surely a little self-serving :-)