Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Richard Feynman
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Merit Review: Investing in People and Ideas
While I was chair of the National Science Board (NSB), which is the Presidentially appointed body charged with oversight of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), we launched a comprehensive review of how NSF selects and competitively awards funding for research proposals. We did so recognizing that leadership of the United States in Science, Technology,…
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Holiday Explanations: So, What Do You Do?
During the holidays, researchers are often asked what they do. Answer carefully; do not confirm stereotypes.
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Understanding and Explaining: The Feynman Technique
If you cannot recreate an idea from its elementary components, you do not really understand it — knowing something is not the same as knowing the name of something.
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Advanced Computing: Integrative Thinking for the Future
The free ride from Dennard scaling is over; the von Neumann architecture is showing its age; and our hierarchical abstractions are now an intellectual box from which we must escape.
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Just the Facts, Ma’am: Reasoning is Not Dead, Jim
Establishing actual facts (a neologism, for sure) is the essential prerequisite for fact-based reasoning.
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Come to the Supercomputing Big Data Edge
The brave new world of edge computing and big data has profound implications for the future of high-performance computing. Come to the edge!