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  1. Find out if User:Mathbot could be set to harvest CS articles and recent activity (or used as the basis for a new bot to do same)
  2. Get pictures for these bios: Thomas Sterling (computing), Donald Becker, Michael J. Flynn, John L. Hennessy, Robert Tomasulo (note - he died in April 2008 - contacting him is now a non-option), Fred Brooks
    Living Turing award winners whose biographies lack pictures: Robert Tarjan - Andrew Yao - Joseph Sifakis - Richard Stearns (computer scientist) - Ron Rivest - Raj Reddy - Michael O. Rabin - Butler Lampson - Robin Milner - Richard Karp - William Kahan - John Hopcroft - Edward Feigenbaum - Leonard Adleman - Manuel Blum - Charles Bachman - Stephen Cook - Fernando J. Corbató - Edmund M. Clarke
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[edit] Todo list

Hey all, I (apparently re-) introduced the Todo list. Specific requests for editing assistance should be added there so that they're more easily seen, and preserved across archives. If there are any outstanding issues remaining from the archives, please copy them into the Todo list. Ham Pastrami (talk) 19:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Why are you messing about with the project page so much? There are other people who use it, the recent changes links are useful. MattOates (Ulti) (talk) 12:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I've added back the "recent changes" links (and a few other things that recently went missing). --Allan McInnes (talk) 17:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
No problem, if you didn't like the changes you are naturally free to revert or improve them. The thing is, judging by the lack of activity in the project I'm not so sure that they are that useful. My changes were intended to help people get into the project and up to speed without being deluged by a myriad of links that, to me, only seem to clutter the page. I mean, the point of a WikiProject page is to provide some kind of focus. Linking every possible shortcut that someone might use doesn't seem to be the best way of coordinating effort. If you personally use these shortcuts a lot, you can always make them part of your personal user page. Ham Pastrami (talk) 20:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Formal language

I think the article formal language has degraded severely over the last few weeks. Here are some milestones:

The degradation is probably due mainly to the activism of Gregbard, but the narrow (philosophical) POV of Philogo doesn't help either. I encourage anyone interested in the topic to comment on Talk:Formal language. If there is enough support perhaps we can revert the article to a sane earlier version. --Hans Adler (talk) 10:05, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] capitalization of eponymous laws -- opinions sought in move discussion

If you have an opinion on capitalization of "law" in titles, there's an open discussion on a move proposal in Talk:Moore's Law, an article in this project. Dicklyon (talk) 18:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] added a new page - cyber-physical systems

Hello, I added a page on cyber-physical systems, right now it's a total stub but hopefully people can add more to it. I've listed a few papers from the NSF workshop on CPS, and have some mobisys papers in mind, maybe some text books too. Hope people can help! Thomaslw (talk) 12:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)