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Will I be Pretty, Will I be Rich? Some Thoughts on Theory vs. Practice in Systems Engineering (Short Summary of Talk)

Summary: Classifies theoretical systems research into Type 1 (deep foundations), Type 2 (pragmatic, application-driven theory), and Type 3 (theory-for-theory), highlighting fuzzy boundaries and differing rewards. Argues theory must both illuminate principles and address real-world system needs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1009
Venue
PODS
Year
1994
Pagerank
-
Overall Rank
14,296 | 1.92%
DOI
10.1145/182591.182592

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@inproceedings{harel_pods94,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '94},
        title = {{Will I be Pretty, Will I be Rich? Some Thoughts on Theory vs. Practice in Systems Engineering (Short Summary of Talk)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/182591.182592},
        doi = {10.1145/182591.182592},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Harel, David},
        year = {1994}
}

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