[Martin Taylor 2004.07/22/09.42]
If you haven't come across Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>, you might like to take a
look. It's a peer reviewed encylopedia of just about everything,
where the peers and the authors are everybody. At first blush, it
seems like an open invitation for a compendium of nonsense, but it
turns out to be much better than that.
My main point in mentioning it is that this encyclopedia of
everything, with over 300,000 distinct articles, has "PCT" only in
the form of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and has nothing at all
under "Perceptual Control Theory". It seems to me that this situation
ought to be remedied. Since anyone at all can draft an article, and
anyone can edit it as they see fit (and revert it to an earlier
version, too), it seems to me that one of the old hands might well
take on the task of making an initial draft.
Articles in Wikipedia may be deleted by public vote if they are
determined to be not representative of a serious professional
viewpoint (as indicated, for example, by having been in the
peer-reviewd literature), or are new "personal research". The
intention is to have a compendium of accepted knowledge, not to be a
medium for exposing ideas or for personal or commercial
advertisement. Dozens of articles per day are proposed for deletion
on grounds of violating one or other of these criteria. An article on
PCT would seem to be well within the constraints, and to be worth
creating.
Have a look at Wikipedia, and see what you think.
Martin