A talk all in research should read

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

As many young people at Bell Labs in the late 50s (at least those of  
us lucky enough to work with him)  Dick had a major impact on my life.  
he was the one who inspired me to stay at BTL rather than going back  
to school and thus getting the opportunity to work with some of the  
great people in our field. Throughout my life, Dick remained a friend  
and a source of wisdom (and  jokes). I have missed him since his death.

Dave


Richard Hamming
‘‘You and Your Research’’
Transcription of the
Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar
7 March 1986
J. F. Kaiser
Bell Communications Research
445 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07962−1910
jfk () ee duke edu
At a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series, Dr.  
Richard W.
Hamming, a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,  
California and a
retired Bell Labs scientist, gave a very interesting and stimulating  
talk, ‘You and Your
Research’ to an overflow audience of some 200 Bellcore staff members  
and visitors at the
Morris Research and Engineering Center on March 7, 1986. This talk  
centered on
Hamming’s observations and research on the question ‘‘Why do so  
few scientists make
significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long  
run?’’ From his more
than forty years of experience, thirty of which were at Bell  
Laboratories, he has made a
number of direct observations, asked very pointed questions of  
scientists about what,
how, and why they did things, studied the lives of great scientists  
and great
contributions, and has done introspection and studied theories of  
creativity. The talk is
about what he has learned in terms of the properties of the individual  
scientists, their
abilities, traits, working habits, attitudes, and philosophy.

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http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/wp-uploads/hamming.pdf

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