Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
by gwern on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:09AM
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I like this idea. So I took a look at their policies and it seems the official Harvard thesis printer (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/student-handbook/dissertation-g...) is Acme, which has an individual-oriented website: https://www.thesisondemand.com/ Using their calculator, a single 181pg\* BW printed thesis is ~$45. That seems cheap enough for a joke for me! But it looks like one will need to add some additional metadata to follow the dissertation guidelines...
If anyone wants to discuss this further, email me.
If anyone wants to discuss this further, email me.
\* The first copy of the thesis linked in OP is 179 pages but it's very dirty and would need to be printed in color; the second copy, https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... , is in much better shape and can be printed in BW.