[Sigia-l] What are the most important problems in our field?

[Nancy Broden]

Giving us all something to chew on as one year ends and a new one
begins, Paul Graham in his essay on Good and Bad Procrastination
writes:

"In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to
anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard Hamming
suggests that you ask yourself three questions:
1. What are the most important problems in your field?
2. Are you working on one of them?
3. Why not?"

Hamming's lengthy and thought-provoking speech now has me wondering
what are the most important problems in our field? Are they are as
large, significant or identifiable as those in mathmatics, physics or
biology?

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
http://paulgraham.com/hamming.html

-- Nancy
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nancy.broden at gmail.com