In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work. From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth's climate, many recent scientific advances would not have been possible without a parallel increase in computing power - and with revolutionary technologies such as the quantum computer edging towards reality, what will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years?
3 News Features and 5 Commentaries from the 23/2/2006 issue of Nature (all freely available as a result of sponsorship from Microsoft Research) concerning the future of computing. Take your pick:
- Philip Ball - Champing at the bits
- Jacqueline Ruttimann - Milestones in scientific computing
- Declan Butler - Everything, everywhere
- Stephen H. Muggleton - Exceeding human limits
- Vernor Vinge - The creativity machine
- Alexander Szalay and Jim Gray - Science in an exponential world
- Roger Brent and Jehoshua Bruck - Can computers help explain biology?
- Ian Foster - A two-way street to science's future
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