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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
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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
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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
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