Sunday, January 09, 2005

Can a biologist fix a radio

I am a computer scientist working mostly on data management.
Sometimes, you wonder if your work makes a difference, if your field is heading in the right direction.

There is an old (Sep 2002) article from a biology journal (by Yuri Lazebnik) that provides a very insightful view about this issue.

I strongly recommend the reading.
You should be able to find the article on google. Try the terms "Can a biologist fix a radio".

You can also find it here and here.

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Blogger Arnaud Sahuguet said...

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Anonymous Clark Adams said...

I've read the journal. You're right, it's a good read. I know that the other readers would say the same. It made me remember my college days when I was taking up an Electronics 101 course. I wondered if other people taking up other degrees would understand how we interpret things, like we interpret a radio as stated in the journal. As I've read along, I was beginning to wonder about the direction of the progress of the current stage of technology.

You, as a computer scientist, would know that data management can do a lot of things like data organization for easier accreditation management, data compression to make archives compact, and all those kinds of stuff. But to some, it's just plain keeping data in a computer. Same way how the radio was interpreted by the author. To people like me who have taken up Electronics, we know that the radio has resistors, transistors, and capacitors inside. All of which have a certain purpose, but to the author, he just summarized it to a simple flow chart. I guess it's up to the person who looks into things on how he interprets them.

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