{"id":582,"date":"2011-04-11T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:37:47","slug":"top-150-computer-science-events-to-be-decided-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Top 150 computer science events to be decided once and for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I break Shtetl-Optimized<\/em>‘s long radio silence with a relatively-exciting announcement: you remember my timeline of computer science history<\/a>? \u00a0Well, MIT students Jason Zhu and Ammar Ammar have now kindly created a website<\/a> where you can vote on each of the entries, as well as new entries suggested by commenters. \u00a0It’s pretty simple: you just register (by entering an email address, username, and password), then upvote each entry you like and downvote each entry you dislike (you can also abstain on any entry).<\/p>\n

The voting site arrives just in time for the MIT symposium “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything”<\/a>, which is happening today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n

For reference, here are the 17 new contenders added by popular demand:<\/p>\n

150BC Chinese text describes Gaussian elimination
\n499 Indian mathematician\u00a0Aryabhata describes the “kuttaka” algorithm for solving Diophantine equations
\n1206 al-Jazari builds elaborate water clocks and musical automata
\n1801 The Jacquard loom uses punched cards to control textile manufacturing
\n1951 Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill describe the concept of closed subroutines
\n1956 Stephen Kleene invents regular expressions
\n1962 The Atlas computer begins operation in Manchester
\n1962 Robert Gallager introduces low-density parity check codes
\n1968 First deployed packet-switching network
\n1969 Strassen’s algorithm for fast matrix multiplication
\n1969 Stephen Wiesner conceives of quantum money and multiplexing
\n1971 Vapnik and Chervonenkis introduce VC dimension
\n1982 PostScript
\n1992 The PCP Theorem
\n1999 SETI@home
\n2006 DaVinci surgical robot performs the first unaided operation
\n2007 Checkers solved<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/span> A new feature has been added that lets you rank four randomly-selected entries—click “Done” on the bottom of the page to access it.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/span> You can now undo a vote by clicking twice on the same arrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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