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


If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind, then a supercomputer is a carbon fiber composite racing bicycle.

The price of innovation keeps rising, the talent is following the money, and many of the traditional players – companies and countries – are struggling to keep up.

One way to drive the flippers and anticipate how the silver pinball of university futures may bounce and move is via war games