21st Century Engineering by Anirudh Dhebar
October 2025
Those who do –
and those who
might have done
This headline was motivated by the concluding
sentence of the second paragraph of a March 7,
1986, talk given at Bell Labs by mathematician
Richard Hamming (“Richard Hamming: You and Your
Research”). The talk was “not about managing research
... (but) about how you individually do your research.”
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