Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Author: Dan Reed
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On the Etiology of Heroes
There are heroes out there, individuals whose words and actions manifest deep and abiding principles, rooted in knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
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On Catastrophes and Rebooting the Planet
The lesson of the stochastic cusp catastrophe: disruptions cannot be immediately inverted; complex dynamic systems involve hysteresis.
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The Simple Things Matter, Most of All Now
Resolving the global COVID-19 crisis depends on sound science, thoughtful policy, collaborative action, and clear communication.
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Advanced Computing: Integrative Thinking for the Future
The free ride from Dennard scaling is over; the von Neumann architecture is showing its age; and our hierarchical abstractions are now an intellectual box from which we must escape.
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Big Bata, Big Challenges, Big Opportunities, and the Reification of Consilience
As with any new approach, the combination of big data and machine learning brings both great opportunities and equally grave risks. Let us reason together.
