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Mittwoch, 20. November 2002

Dean Kamen hat (vor in diesen Tagen schon geraumer Zeit) seine [create Stirling Engine] vorgestellt.

2002-11-20-dekaLing

Amazon hat neuerdings einen Chief Algorithms Officer: Udi Manber. Offensichtlich geht schön langsam der Vorrat an Chief-prefixten Titeln zu Ende (und das am Beginn der Weihnachtssaison).

2002-11-20-cao

alex_s 8037 days AGO
Chief Algorithms Officer, I like the sound of that. Thanks for the link.

--Alex

hannes 8037 days AGO
Also das finde ich schon besonders nett und auch wichtig - Algorithmen werden oft vernachlässigt und es werden sch... Programme geschrieben, die nicht funktionieren oder nicht performen. Hatte mal so ein Projekt, da wäre das nicht unwichtig gewesen, bloss welcher Kunde versteht sowas?

David Ness 8034 days AGO
I guess I am contrarian as always. I can't imagine that even 5% of the American Public has even the slightest clue what an `algorithm' is, so I am not sure that the name `Chief Algorithms Officer' is any more informative than calling someone
`Chief Snagglepuss'. In addition, I'd like to know something about the titles of the people who report to this guy. Are they `Head of Discrete Algorithms', `Head of Approximate Algorithms', `Head of Heuristics' or what. Unless the title means more that it would appear from the press release it is (1) largely fake; and (2) an open invitation to corporate in-fighting becasue of `unclear mandate'. It will be interesting to see if the job outlives the current incumbent. I'd bet it won't.

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