Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: net.cs proposal Message-ID: <644@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 14:06:21 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxp.644 Posted: Wed Feb 22 14:06:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 00:20:40 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 27 I would like to formally propose the creation of "net.cs". It charter would include the discussion of topics in areas of Computer Science. The differance between this new group and current ones is that the purpose of this group would be to discourse upon the theroreticals and the interesting tricks that make our discipline sometimes so mysterious, not hardware or languages or specific machines or ai. The need for this group came apparent when I was attempting to gather information in regards to the RISC theory of Computers, but could find no significantly appropiate group. Especially with the large number of Universities and Program Shops on this net, there are signifcant questions, both in the abstract and in the application, that have no place to be asked or to be answered. Examples: Number theory, database design theory, generic data structures, and recent theoretical developments (for example the RISC theory). And also the interesting things that some never will know about: Hamming Codes, Robotics, and Queueing Theory. These are just examples off the top of my head of things that some people never contact but are interesting. I think that in a net that has wobegon, a serious forum that could prove to be very interesting deserves atleast a chance. Thanks for the time. Walt Pesch AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch