Henry S. Thompson
12 Sep 2005
- Searle has claimed that there is no such thing as Computer Science
- Certainly most of what we all publish is more like engineering
- C.f. Robin Milner's position paper. . .
- Hypotheses and experiment (Bacon)
- Falsifiability (Popper)
- Consensus measures of quality
- "The difference between research and development is that research
may fail"
- The risks of being hyphenated
- Theorem envy
- The pervasive and obligatory use of URIs/resources for identifiers/referents;
- The restriction to two-place relations;
- The potential synergy of independently-developed descriptions.
- The scandal of computer science?
- Increasing recognition of importance for the OFW
- The relation of names, sorts, languages, definitions, versions
- What is this collection of triples about?
- NL Semantics retreat:
- Forget "what does this mean"
- Instead, ask "do these two mean the same thing"
- Can we come up with names for the web which support (probably nearly)
correct answers to this
- I think the answer is yes, using Google