On 8/7/16 4:13 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
I have seen several other attempts in the past few decades to write “history”
papers in the context
of IEEE proceedings. They (unfortunately) always seem to turn into a set of
personal recollections
rather than a proper history. It would be *very* useful to have a complete
trace of who did what and
when in some of these areas. We seem to be very poor at doing all the (very)
heavy lifting involved
in getting that done. This is hardly unique to this field. It is very typical
in a lot of tech areas, and has
been for at least a few hundred years ….
I find that some of the best summaries of "previous work" are found in
the second section of a PhD dissertation: you have to describe all the
previous work, so you can say why your work is something new and
different. And putting together a good summary is "your job" as opposed
to "something on the side" which would be the case for most working
engineers.
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