Talk:ISABELLE

The history of the ISABELLE project shows how strategic mistakes in requirements and tactical mistakes in implementation led to failure of a major U.S. government project. Amazingly, many of these mistakes were repeated ten lears later in the failure of a similar but much more costly project in the same field. Robert Crease, who has served as Brookhaven's historian, wrote in 2004 that experiences with ISABELLE and the Superconducting Supercollider taught the U.S. high energy physics community virtues of collaboration. However, pleas from a National Academy of Sciences panel for advance funds "to build [a new] machine, the International Linear Collider, in the United States" so that "American particle physicists [would not have to] do their research in Europe," call Crease's assertion into question.

Craig Bolon 20:49, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Move to ISABELLE
I suggest we move this article to ISABELLE and make the Isabelle a redirect there, since ISABELLE was the proper name for the project. Any objections? -- SCZenz 22:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, that might be a good idea. As the article explains, however, ISABELLE was not quite an acronym but instead a hybrid of the acronym "ISA" plus "belle." In all publications I have seen from inside the physics community ISABELLE is fully capitalized, but in many general and trade press articles only the first letter is capitalized. If the name of the article is fully capitalized, the links to it will also need changes.

Craig Bolon 23:42, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd say that the article should follow the conventions of the article, which would suggest the move. And yes, if I move it I'll fix the links. -- SCZenz 23:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Certainly OK by me. Craig Bolon 00:03, 30 April 2006 (UTC)