NYT: Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
Posted on 25 Apr 2011
John Markoff, Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science, New York Times, 25 April 2011.
The physical technology of scientific research is still here — the new electron microscopes, the telescopes, the particle colliders — but they are now inseparable from computing power, and it is the computers that let scientists find order and patterns in the raw information that the physical tools gather.
Computer power not only aids research, it defines the nature of that research: what can be studied, what new questions can be asked, and answered.
