Download - Foster Computational Thinking
Ian Foster
Computation Institute
Argonne National Lab & University of Chicago
Some thoughts on computation
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“Applied computer science is now playing the role that mathematics did from the 17th through the 20th centuries: providing an orderly, formal framework and exploratory apparatus for other sciences”
– G. Djorgovski
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Knowledge generation in astronomy ~1600
30 years? years
10 years6 years2 years
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Knowledge generation in astronomy ~1600
30 years? years
10 years6 years2 years
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Automation10
-1 108 Hz
data capture
Community10
0 104
astronomers(+106 amateur)
ComputationData10
6 1015
Baggregate 10
-1 1015
Hzpeak
Literature10
1 105
pages/year
Astronomy,from 1600 to 2000
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Denning’s “great principles”
Computation
Communication
Coordination
Recollection
Automation
Evaluation
Design
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NAE Grand Challenges
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A Community Integrated Model for Economic and Resource Trajectories for
Humankind (CIM-EARTH)
Dynamics,foresight,
uncertainty,resolution, …
Agriculture,transport,
taxation, …
Data (global,local, …)
(Super)computers
CIM-EARTHFramework
Communityprocess
Opencode, data
www.cim-earth.org
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for most people,
computing in the large
is more important than computing in the small
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The world includes many analog components
Computation Institutewww.ci.uchicago.edu
www.ci.anl.gov
Thank you!