Lang lebe Peer Review!

Ein paar Gegenbeispiele wurden hier mal zusammengestellt. (PDF)
Relevant hier vor allem wegen:

  • Codd: “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.”
  • Shannon: “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”
  • Turing: “On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem”

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The author claims that “semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problems,” which seems to indicate that his theory is suitable mostly for transmitting gibberish. [...] I don’t understand the relevance of discrete sources: No matter what one does, in the end, the signal will have to be modulated using good old-fashioned vacuum tubes, so the signal on the “channel” will always be analogical.

the IBM method presents the problem of distributing the encryption key, but their method is a standard and we must live with it

a recent [...] memo stated that a dozen or so such machines will be sufficient for all the computing that we’ll ever need in the foreseeable future

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