CS341 Lecture Notes - Dynamic Programming, Richard E. Bellman, Artery Recordings
16 Oct 2011
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Bellman in the early 1950"s while he worked for the. Rand corporation on multistage decision processes : origins of the term dynamic programming (1950): In the first place i was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word, programming. " i wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying i thought, let"s kill two birds with one stone. Let"s take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it"s impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. Thus, i thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a congressman could object to.
