Survey on Computing in the Sciences

by Brian Hayes

Published 17 October 2008

Do you create software for scientific computing, or use such software in doing research? Then my friend Greg Wilson would like to hear from you. Together with colleagues from the University of Toronto, Simula Research Laboratory and the National Research Council of Canada, he is conducting a survey on practices in scientific computing. Greg plans to report the results next year in an American Scientist article.

Tags for this article: computing, science.

Publication history

First publication: 17 October 2008

Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025

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