Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future

Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience

Category: Current Affairs

  • Predicting Potentialities, Reifying Futures
    Predicting Potentialities, Reifying Futures

    Remember, the best way to predict the future is to create it.

  • Breathing Easily
    Breathing Easily

    Utah is hosting The Air We Breathe, a symposium on air quality on October 3, 2019: https://cleanair.utah.edu/

  • The Endless Frontier and the National Science Board
    The Endless Frontier and the National Science Board

    I am pleased that I am being appointed to the National Science Board, where I hope to help the NSF continue to support and sustain scholars – young and old – and to advance scientific research and ensure national competitiveness.

  • As Far as the Eye Can See
    As Far as the Eye Can See

    For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. — Tennyson

  • A Feeling for the Code
    A Feeling for the Code

    A thing of transfixing beauty, the code pirouettes gracefully, dancing in my mind, conjuring the possible.

  • On Being the Right Size: Science Scaling and Power Laws
    On Being the Right Size: Science Scaling and Power Laws

    Balancing single researcher support against large projects is of ever-growing scientific policy importance.