[gamegoblin]

We have a professor who is one of a few dozen active researchers in his field, and I have developed some algorithms for him. It is really trivial to publish in fields like that. And back in the 50s and 60s anybody could get an algorithm named after them.

[btilly]

Sorry to let you know, but most professors are in fields like that. That's why I left the subject. :-(

[gamegoblin]

Really? Most of our CS professors are in much more well-established fields. Our department head is in search engines, my advisor is data mining, we have some GPU computing folks, and some database security guys, etc. Then the one guy in a highly esoteric field, where a "conference" involves a half dozen people meeting for a week.

[btilly]

I was in math.

I've heard that CS is better. But still has tendencies that way.