[cfraenkel]

Off the top of my head: Shannon, Nyquist, Hamming. Lapping them you say.

[ggm]

I think my reading of your comment is: that's just wrong. And I tend to agree. The current STEM and FAANG activity is second order work in the main. I wouldn't hold AI work up as a paragon, myself. It's diverting from progress across a field.

I have hopes of a resurgence of operations research and linear optimisation as goods in themselves: we could be plotting more nuanced courses in dark waters of competing pressure. Decision systems support across many fields would remove subjective, politicised pressures.

[l33t7332273]

Do you think there is room for a resurgence in linear optimization?

Linear programming, and even integer linear programming are pretty well solved practically speaking.