{"id":5197,"date":"2011-04-18T06:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2011-04-13T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T06:24:53","slug":"want-to-help-make-computer-science-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=5197","title":{"rendered":"Want to help make computer science history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson has been asked by MIT to put together a list of the top 150 events in computer science history as part of the celebration of <a title=\"mit150\" href=\"http:\/\/mit150.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT&#8217;s 150th anniversary<\/a>. You can vote on the potential entries <a title=\"CSTimelineVote\" href=\"http:\/\/cstimeline.alwaysdata.net\/polls\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (you will need to register by providing a login name, password, and e-mail address). For more information about the project, see <a title=\"Timeline of computer science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=524\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post <\/a>which includes an early version of the list, and a <a title=\"top150decision\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=582\" target=\"_blank\">more recent blog post<\/a> of his on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned some of Scott&#8217;s work before, in a <a title=\"quantum inspired classical\" href=\"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=2594\" target=\"_blank\">post about classical computer science results inspired by quantum information processing<\/a>, and in a <a title=\"overview of quantum computing for technology managers\" href=\"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=2590\" target=\"_blank\">post on an overview of\u00a0 quantum computing for technology managers<\/a> I wrote a couple of years ago. His results don&#8217;t make it into the top 150 computer science results of all time, but are good candidates for a list of the top 150 results of the last decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson has been asked by MIT to put together a list of the top 150 events in computer science history as part of the celebration of MIT&#8217;s 150th anniversary. You can vote on the potential entries here (you will need to register by providing a login name, password, and e-mail address). For more information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}