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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Pars Mutaf <[email protected]> wrote: > We researchers suffer from the following paradox: > > 1. When we have an idea, we wish to publish it as fast as possible to > receive credit for it > 2. However, we are afraid that others finalize our idea before us > > The solution to this problem is to publish the SHA-1 hash of our document. > If someone > else finds the same idea later, we can prove that we found it before them. > > We may also want to share our unpublished idea with others in order to > receive feedback. > But we are afraid that they copy it. Publishing the SHA-1 of our document > as fast as possible > solves this problem. > > This solution was used by Galileo: > > http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/01/24/the-open-science-paradox/ > > The following algorithm that I designed provides this solution: > > flower-standard.org > > Cheers, > > Pars Mutaf > > PS: > An alternative is to publish a technical report as Joe Touch suggested. > But using flower standard > you can also protect an idea if you are a freelance researcher, or if you > do not have enough text for a > technical report. > > -- http://www.content-based-science.org _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
