This sounds interesting, also... you were able to teach professors how to think! 😊 Seriously, though, it denotes the discipline that research requires, and profs really should know such things. -- Sorry to get back to this late; I was in growing distress earlier with this cervical pain, and my son and I wanted to go out for a bit of movie fun. I saw the pain Dr this morning and he told me not to wear the cervical collar... so, in order to go out and have some fun with my son - naturally I wore my cervical collar! 😇
>>I was in growing distress earlier with this cervical pain
I’m so sorry you’re having trouble. Misery. Hope there’s something that you’re doing that’s relieving the pain, if not the collar.
Re profs: I lost being impressed with academics back when I was working on the contest to design the American Department of Defense common language, that became Ada. There were 4 companies competing - two with strong University connections; two with strong military/industrial connections. My company was one of the latter. Once you got deep into the language design, there was absolutely no question that the m/i knew their material cold and the universities were glorified hand wavers. They were so used to using grad students, who put limited time into projects, that they never seemed willing to do the hard research work this type of project required. I’ve put most of the history of the contest into my website, but it’s a long and sad story that Jean Ichbiah won the French Legion of Honor for designing the American defense language.
I’ve worked with two professors on authorship attribution of Night Before Christmas. The first one was brilliant, but occasionally sloppy. This one is anal compulsive to the nth degree and I adore him for it. But we spent so much time forcing him deeper into the research. He couldn’t get used to the amount of work we were willing to put into the project. Also the human engineering we put into the results we gave him. By putting in that front end work, he was able to comprehend results quicker, and recognize additional work that would have value. My personal theory is that every professor needs an industrially trained, retired volunteer working with them.