Artigo da CACM: Science has only two legs
sexta-feira, agosto 27th, 2010Este artigo publicado na CACM precisa ser lido. Trata de assunto relevante: a importância da simulação digital e do processamento de sistemas de equações complexos bem como de grandes volumes de dados para a ciência.
Communications of the ACM
Volume 53, Number 9 (2010), Pages 5-5
Science has only two legs
Moshe Y. Vardi
Science has been growing new legs of late. The traditional “legs” (or “pillars”) of the scientific method were theory and experimentation. That was then. In 2005, for example, the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee issued a report, “Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness,” stating: “Together with theory and experimentation, computational science now constitutes the ‘third pillar’ of scientific inquiry, enabling researchers to build and test models of complex phenomena.” The report offered examples such as multi-century climate shifts, multidimensional flight stresses on aircraft, and stellar explosions.
