Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: NCSA
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Thoughts on 9/11
I had the unusual experience of being on the Capitol Hill of the U.S. during the event. A brief summary of my experience is recounted here.
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Remembering Internet Dogs
An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer, remarking to a second dog on the floor that, “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.” Not only does the Internet now know you…
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I Could Smell the Smoke
Why didn’t we leave a high value target area, you might ask? The Washington Metro was closed, taxis were non-existent, there was a security cordon around the area, and it was too far to walk.
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Showing Up and Two Corollaries
“Eighty to ninety percent of life is showing up.” The line has been variously attributed to Yogi Berra, Woody Allen or even an anonymous wag. At the recent Cetraro meeting on High-Performance Computing and Grids, Miron Livny extended the “show up and see what happens” maxim by offering a corollary, “Show up and avoid doing…
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Dan@Microsoft.com
On December 3, I will embark on the next installment of my own future, which will place me in the center of the ever-evolving computing revolution. On that day, I will be joining Microsoft to head a new research initiative (see the Microsoft Research press release and RENCI/UNC press release) in scalable and multicore computing.