Talk:Christine Peterson

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Begin PerlDiver (talk) 18:34, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

(This description is clearly not NPOV -- which is why it's here in the discussion and not in the article. But I hope these citations can live here until I get around to writing the article itself.)

I think that it's an act of intellectual fraud to have deleted this article; and that its outright deletion, rather than simple conversion to an appropriate redirection, was intended to put previous discussion and editing history down the memory hole, out of some personal animus towards the subject. Therefore I call upon editors with sufficient authority to protect the redirect (and this discussion) from similar attempts to erase the record.

The excuse given for deletion in the change descriptions was "notability". As a co-founder and the principal driving force behind Foresight Institute, Christine Peterson was and remains the central organizing figure in the formation and growth of the molecular manufacturing R & D community, especially during its early history from the 1980's onward. The field simply would not have come to exist as we know it today without her hard work and influence; and the field of nanoscale materials science would not have usurped the name "nanotechnology" (which until the mid-1990's applied only to what is now known as "molecular manufacturing" or "molecular nanotechnology") without the tremendous academic influence and popular buzz created, in the main, by Christine, through Foresight Institute.

Aside from her seminal influence in nanotechnology, she was also an important collaborator and strategist in the formation of the "open source" software movement (to the extent of actually coining the term "open source": http://www.opensource.org/history http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch11.html )

Books by Christine Peterson: http://www.amazon.com/Leaping-Abyss-Putting-Group-Genius/dp/0965899500 http://www.amazon.com/Unbounding-Future-Nanotechnology-Eric-Drexler/dp/0688125735

Books about Christine Peterson: http://www.amazon.com/Nano-Emerging-Nanotechnology-Ed-Regis/dp/0316738522 (a joint biography of her and her then-husband, K. Eric Drexler )

April 9th 2003 testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science: http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/108/hs_040903hsci_nanoact.jsp http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108hrpt817/pdf/CRPT-108hrpt817.pdf

Interviews with or articles quoting Christine Peterson: http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/108/hs_040903hsci_nanoact.jsp (Testimony before Congress) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/business/technology-from-nanotechnology-s-sidelines-one-more-warning.html http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/26/science/atom-by-atom-scientists-build-invisible-machines-of-the-future.html?pagewanted=all http://www.wired.com/topics/Christine_Peterson http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/07/64235 http://www.crnano.org/interview.peterson.htm http://earthsky.org/human-world/christine-peterson-interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNzOK3eZi0Y http://gcn.com/articles/2008/10/24/christine-peterson--anticipating-nanotechnologies.aspx http://chris.pirillo.com/christine-peterson-life-extension-for-geeks/ http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/ubois/2007/02/christine_peterson_of_the_fore.html http://nanotech2004.thenewatlantis.com/2004/10/nano_ups_and_do.html

Additional information about Christine Peterson: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/2009/nanotechnologies-long-term-potentials-unprecedented-challenges-for-governance/#more-2143 (conference presentation; video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BejUJoM3TIU

End PerlDiver (talk) 18:34, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Reference for "open source" coinage:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/bountiful-year-open-source-750

PerlDiver (talk) 00:34, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

There appear to be several extant examples of "open source" being applied to software prior to Christine's suggesting it for use by what would become the OSI. See:

- http://hyperlogos.org/blog/drink/term-Open-Source

- https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=opensource.com

- https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=openbsd.org

- http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061019013207

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32/WoBvPB0U9Co/wXfpq5nEJTYJ

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/open$20source$20before$3A1998$2F01$2F01

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.object.corba/z803p125OJ8/pzrebkOVPCAJ

- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.development.system/2IrO-9jghFs/HlB2UA2TDMkJ

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.linux/06y4cr6wr7o/fZPOOaIMCCYJ

In light of this discrepancy, the phrases "coined" and "originally suggested" are disputed.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.170.71.82 (talk • contribs)

This is some useful research that could be reported in the media. That would be a source. As it is two reliable sources credit her. We cannot report your research even though it is convincing. Victuallers (talk) 23:49, 25 January 2019 (UTC)