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


Our fascination with large instruments and massive computing often blinds us to discovery via many instruments at smaller scales.

Why do we, as researchers and practitioners, have this deep and abiding love of computing? Why do we compute? I suspect it is a deeper, more primal yearning, one that underlies all of science and engineering and that unites us in a common cause. It is the insatiable desire to know and understand. From terascale…