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Technical Computing

Computing and internet issues relating to computing for science, engineering, and industry (as differentiated from ecommerce, banking, and all the rest). Most people have no idea about technical computing. Yet everything from design of their cars, weather prediction, seismic analysis and oil field simulations, chemical biodynamics and genome research, to stress/strain analysis of buildings and airplane wings falls under this topic. How does the use of computers and the net for technical computing drive innovation? What is the source of friction between commercial uses and technical computing?.

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