Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
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The AI Whispered Your Name …
You have probably been the unwitting protagonist in the following social horror movie. A stranger approaches you and begins chatting animatedly, like an old acquaintance or confidant. Meanwhile, you nod vaguely, half-listening while seized by internal panic. You frantically attempt to triangulate a face, name and a context. It is a study in cognitive dissonance,…
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Pinball, War Games, and Universities
One way to drive the flippers and anticipate how the silver pinball of university futures may bounce and move is via war games
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Scientific Clouds: Blowin’ in the Wind
Cirrus, stratus, altostratus, cumulus: they are the scientific names of the common clouds. They drift across the sky, reflecting the changing wind and weather. A new front is blowing into computational science, and cloud computing will soon advance scientific and engineering discovery.
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Life in the Clouds
Diverse computing services, backed by massive data centers, are now being delivered not just to businesses but to individuals and their mobile devices. Life in the clouds is here, primitive but evolving rapidly in response to powerful social and economic forces.