Standing on the shoulders of a giant: one persons experience of turings impact

Authors:
David Harel
Affiliations:
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Venue:
ICALP'12 Proceedings of the 39th international colloquium conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming - Volume Part II
Year:
2012

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Abstract

A quote attributed to Isaac Newton says "If I have seen a little further it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants". This was indeed stated by Newton, but the general metaphor of a dwarf standing on a giant goes back many, many years earlier. I would recommend the wonderful 1965 book by Robert K. Merton, referred to fondly as OTSOG (on the shoulders of giants) [1] .