Re:A prophet will arise in CS
by patrickyeon on Monday May 09, 2011 @04:56PM
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> Nobody knows Feynman, believe me.
Unfortunately, I do [believe you]. Nonetheless, if Hawking, Feynman, Sagan (and I'm surprised we've forgotten Einstein until now) are the 'prophets' to be held up for physics, they are the examples I would start from to look for a CS prophet. Hofstadter or Turing, as have been mentioned elsewhere, would get my vote. The one is dead, though, and the other has an excellent book or two, but not at all the public image or body of "bite-sized" work that those prophets of physics have.
Unfortunately, I do [believe you]. Nonetheless, if Hawking, Feynman, Sagan (and I'm surprised we've forgotten Einstein until now) are the 'prophets' to be held up for physics, they are the examples I would start from to look for a CS prophet. Hofstadter or Turing, as have been mentioned elsewhere, would get my vote. The one is dead, though, and the other has an excellent book or two, but not at all the public image or body of "bite-sized" work that those prophets of physics have.