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Re:"Most creative people are not working in a university doi... by andreyf on Saturday July 26, 2008 @01:20PM (#257638)
The reason why [Computer Science] research produces so little that can be called creative programming these days...

I'd like to see some examples of "meaningless solutions to irrelevant problems". CS research was never really about producing "creative programming", but rather about furthering what we know about computers, which involves a lot of math and theoretical research.

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Re:"Most creative people are not working in a university doi... by alex_c on Saturday July 26, 2008 @01:35PM (#257645)
"meaningless solutions to irrelevant problems"

Sounds a bit like web 2.0, doesn't it?

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Re:"Most creative people are not working in a university doi... by duane on Saturday July 26, 2008 @01:50PM (#257649)
If I were to guess, he's talking about problems which don't affect his life or aren't "interesting"; That, however, is where the money lies. Just think about the founders of google: their research wasn't exactly thrilling, but it's led them to be one of, if not the, most successful tech companies of all time.
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Re:"Most creative people are not working in a university doi... by attack on Saturday July 26, 2008 @07:07PM (#257837)
Their research was rather thrilling at the time.
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