was chapter draft ever produced for Session 30, How Do We Know What We Know - Epistemology?
Slideset provided for Epistemology, wondering if there might be a draft chapter or published paper somewhere?
- https://gitlab.nps.edu/Savage/hamming/-/blob/master/slidesets/Hamming30EpistemologyHowDoWeKnowWhatWeKnow.pptx
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxZHUEa8rwQ&list=PLctkxgWNSR89bl7hTOS3F3wuoGj7id3Xy
Note that book chapter 30 You and Your Research has been renumbered as chapter 31 in order to keep original time-sequence ordering of recordings and also to maintain logical flow as final chapter.
Marty Mandelberg notes: You may want to reference the following book:
Hamming, R. W., 'We Would Know What They Thought When They Did It,” in Metropolis, N., J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980, pp. 3-9. Some details can be found at the following link which is a summary by the Publisher of Hamming’s Chapter. We Would Know What They Thought When They Did It - ScienceDirect
Abstract. This chapter presents author's point of view to understand creation, development, and spread of ideas. It is stated that the expert in a field usually prefers the classical form of history with its emphasis on who first did what and when he did it. The chapter presents an example to explain informed speculation. It is the history of the ideas in the field, rather than the isolated events that interests an outsider. Stonehenge has gradually passed from being a rude structure built by clumsy oafs for primitive religious events to a rather sophisticated astronomical device. An examination of the history of computing shows that around the years 1952–1954 many came to the same conclusion that the computer was more than a number cruncher. There should be emphasis on the creation, development, and spread of the ideas, rather than a mere enumeration of firsts, names, places, dates, numbers, speeds, etc.