Today on Computational Complexity blog (started by Lance Fortnow and now being handled by Bill Garasch) announced starting of a WiKi for open problems in computer science. It has been started by Matt DeVos and Robert Samal. The idea was proposed by Lance few months back. And these guys went all the way to actually start such a wiki space. I think, its absolutely a great idea because:
It will list open problems of many areas.
It would help in finding out who is working on what and hence it will provide a good forum to make collaborations.
It will help people avoid reinventing wheels.
It would make reviewing of papers easy (if problem of importance ** is solved in a paper you would automatically know how to rate it etc..)
If one wishes to shift fields, then surveying new fields will become very easy.
Of course, all these advantages are subject to the fact that people in the field take active interest and responsibility to maintain this forum up to date and lot of people make contributions.
It will list open problems of many areas.
It would help in finding out who is working on what and hence it will provide a good forum to make collaborations.
It will help people avoid reinventing wheels.
It would make reviewing of papers easy (if problem of importance ** is solved in a paper you would automatically know how to rate it etc..)
If one wishes to shift fields, then surveying new fields will become very easy.
Of course, all these advantages are subject to the fact that people in the field take active interest and responsibility to maintain this forum up to date and lot of people make contributions.
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but it will be a good compendium thats for sure ...