On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Ernst W. Mayer wrote:
> The following article, titled "Irish teen's e-mail code could
> transform Internet commerce" should be of interest:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/14/email.genius/
>
> Pretty impressive work for a person of any age, much less a 16-year-old.
> We should see if we can recruit her for the GIMPS effort.
>
> -Ernst
I checked that article, it has no mention of her algorithm, no mention of
the strength of the algorithm, no mention of whether the judges where
competent to evaluate the strength of the algorithm and a very scary quote
foretelling the future of her work.
<quote>
She said that she would prefer to publish her discovery rather than
patent it, because making money from it would go against the spirit of
science.
</quote>
With the way the US patent law works, that will put it up for grabs to
whoever gets the application done first, thus enabling them to prevent any
unlicenced use by others, including the discoverer.
She's showing her age with that comment:(
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Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.
