Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The topic of my Ph.D. thesis, written for a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980, was on techniques for encoding information in a computer so that it would still be usable a thousand years later. "Transmitting information across space or time", I called it. The techniques exist, and they are now, 22 years later, quite widely known and widely used. The language used for web pages, HTML, is the best-known "will still be useful in a thousand years" document representation language. It's just like preserving paper. You have to know what you are doing, you have to understand the computer equivalent of acid-free paper, and you have to be prepared to work just a little harder than if you're only making something to last a week. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html