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Creating software that works for everyone

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John agrees that combining studies in computing with science, social science or business courses will not only give you a broader education but will allow you to apply your software engineering skills in a wider range of applications (e.g., At university, I planned to major in chemistry or progress to medical school.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Chemistry with Dr Nicole Hondow and Stuart Micklethwaite. Most RSEs have a degree and/or PhD in their chosen area, such as maths, physics or chemistry.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A www.learnpython.org ).

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Traditional computational chemistry—perhaps sped up by AI—can potentially determine the rates at which different alkanes are “randomly produced” And in a quite different direction, analyzing the academic literature—say with an LLM—can potentially predict how much a certain alkane can be expected to be studied or talked about.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

For that was a time when the concepts of computing were first being worked out—and through approaches like cybernetics and the nascent area of artificial intelligence, people started exploring the broader scientific implications of computational ideas. It’s a bit like chemistry where one explores properties of some particular molecule.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. Part of the motivation came from watching Joyce struggle with a Harvard course on Chemistry, where a lot of the homework involved units conversions.