I often feel bad for computer science researchers in the 50s and 60s. It isn't that they were any less smart than today, it's just that where they had kilo-X, we have giga-X, if not tera-X or even peta-X.
One of my evolutionary computation professors said that he had a deck of cards that he carried from job to job, university to university, running bits of his evolutionary computation experiment on spare cycles, an experiment that runs in fractions of a second on hardware at the time he told the story in 2001. Presumably now it would run in even more fractional fractions of a second.
One of my evolutionary computation professors said that he had a deck of cards that he carried from job to job, university to university, running bits of his evolutionary computation experiment on spare cycles, an experiment that runs in fractions of a second on hardware at the time he told the story in 2001. Presumably now it would run in even more fractional fractions of a second.