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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by gwern on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:09AM (#23584353)
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.

\* 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.

Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by gwern on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:37PM (#23585764)
After reading tankenmate's link, it seems this has already been tried & would be pointless; the library would just reject it. Oh well!