Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Innovation
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The Utility of Uselessness: Freeing Minds
Abraham Flexner: A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.
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Research, Education, Engagement and Bovine Transport
Research universities have three critical, irreducible functions: knowledge creation, education, and engagement. Each sustains the others.
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Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Our longing for a better world is why Star Trek has lived long and prospered.
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Informatics, Sugar Water and Revolution
If the Anthropocene defines human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems, then the Information Age defines computing’s impact on our own interactions.
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Seeing the Invisible: The Consilience of Knowledge
Seeing the invisible web of intellectual connectedness that binds as a community of scholars is the first step in embracing the consilience of knowledge.
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Scholarship and Human Progress
By its nature, research is a long game, for basic research and scholarship expand the collective body of human knowledge.