Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Information Technology
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Cyberinfrastructure: Lots of Room at the Edge
Our fascination with large instruments and massive computing often blinds us to discovery via many instruments at smaller scales.
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A {Racing} Bicycle for the Mind: Helmet Recommended
If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind, then a supercomputer is a carbon fiber composite racing bicycle.
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Memos, Janitors, Teams, and Innovation
The next time you see a janitor, stop, smile, and say thank you. The word will spread, far faster and far more effectively than via any memo.
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Stored Program Computing: Ideas and Individuals Do Change the World
Johnny von Neumann’s draft report on EDVAC and the stored program concept transformed and codified modern digital computing
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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.