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24 - Computational science: a new frontier for computing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2010

By
Andrew Herbert
Edited by
Yves Bertot ,
Gérard Huet ,
Jean-Jacques Lévy  and
Gordon Plotkin
Andrew Herbert
Affiliation:
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yves Bertot
Affiliation:
INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France
Gérard Huet
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt
Jean-Jacques Lévy
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt
Gordon Plotkin
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Abstract

In 2005 Gilles Kahn discussed with Rick Rashid, Stephen Emmott and myself a proposal for Microsoft Research, Cambridge and INRIA to establish a joint research laboratory in France, building on the long-term informal collaboration between the two institutions. The research focus of the joint laboratory was an important point of discussion. In addition to building on our mutual strengths in areas such as software specification an important topic was a shared desire to create a programme of researching the area of computational science – using the concepts and methods of computer science to accelerate the pace of scientific development and explore the potential for new approaches to science exploiting computer science concepts and methods. This paper explores what computational science is and the contribution it can make to scientific progress. It is in large part abridged from a report “Towards 2020 Science” published by a group of experts assembled by Microsoft Research who met over three intense days to debate and consider the role and future of science, looking towards 2020 and, in particular, the importance and impact of computing and computer science in that vision.

Introduction

Computers have played an increasingly important role in science for 50 years. At the end of the twentieth century there was a transition from computers supporting scientists to do conventional science to computer science itself becoming part of the fabric of science and how science is done.

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From Semantics to Computer Science
Essays in Honour of Gilles Kahn
 , pp. 529 - 546
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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