Hooked on classics #math #computerscience #operationsresearch (1962)
I shouldn't get distracted by this #typography
I could sworn... I once heard that they named it "dynamic" programming because they knew the DoD was obsessed with "dynamic" things and wanted darpa funding. ever since then I haven't been able to find a source for this
I read the same thing only weeks ago! It was Bellman: "…it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. …It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities. — Richard Bellman" From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic...