Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Innovation
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Missing Talent, Missing Opportunities, and Losing Ground
Why is it culturally acceptable in the U.S. to say, “I’m bad at math and science” when few would willingly confess to semi-literacy by saying “I don’t read very well.”
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In Silico Whole Cell Modeling
First principles computational modeling of biological processes inspires the imagination.
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5G: A Failure to Communicate
The conflict between airlines and wireless carriers over 5G and radar altimeters could have been prevented by clearer and better coordinated policy leadership in Washington.
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Higher Education in the 21st Century
Public research universities are in the business of helping people. This is especially true in times of accelerating and disruptive change.
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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.