March 27, 2006
The Future of Computing - 2020
The Journal Nature presents a special review of the Future of Computing. According to the introduction, "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?"
It is available for free access and includes topics such as:
Milestones in scientific computing
Science in an exponential world
Can computers help explain biology?
A two-way street to science's future
And lots more...
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Nature 2020 – Future of Computing
Posted by rsk at March 27, 2006 08:20 AM