Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Science
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HPC and Climate Change: Senate Hearing
On Thursday, May 8, I testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology. The full committee hearing was on improving the “Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling for Decision Makers and End-Users.” The other members of the hearing panel were Jim Hack and I represented the computing and computational science issues, and the…
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Computing is Beauty; Computing is Truth
Truth and beauty, beauty and truth: as I recall, John Keats also had a few words to say on this topic. The universe in a grain of sand is here, in ways neither Blake nor Keats could have imagined.
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eScience: 21st Century Science
Today, computing is the third pillar of scientific discovery, complementing and mutually enabling theory and experiment.
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Singapore Biopolis
As Nature and Science have noted, the Biopolis is a part of Singapore’s aggressive plans to establish itself as an international center for biomedical research, with both world-class facilities and international talent.
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Bridge Building: Medical Research and Computing
As an aside, Lee remarked to me once that he had been pleased with the quality of his undergraduate science education and that it had prepared him well to tackle complex problems. Of course, he also noted that he’d had undergraduate physics with Dick Feynman, chemistry with Linus Pauling and biology with Max Delbrück. That’s…