{"id":274,"date":"2012-04-30T02:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:24:49","slug":"after-14-years-latex-copy-of-phd-thesis-just-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"After 14 years, LaTeX copy of PhD thesis just works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No bit rot at all &#8211; sat 14 years on a CD and with minimal effort I was able to get my dissertation built.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Dunlop Haynes. <a href=\"http:\/\/tulsalabs.com\/Documents\/thesisDS.pdf\">Collective Adaptation: The Sharing of Building Blocks.<\/a> PhD thesis, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>I want to contrast that against my Master&#8217;s thesis, which I did in Word and which was a major pain in the rear. Of course, I converted it to LaTeX source as well, and I could probably get it posted up here as well.<\/p>\n<p>I could probably get the GP engine code running again and regenerate all of the data from scratch in a fraction of time on the systems I have sitting around the house. Ahh, too geeky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No bit rot at all &#8211; sat 14 years on a CD and with minimal effort I was able to get my dissertation built. Thomas Dunlop&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}