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2020 – Future of Computing
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In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work. From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth's climate, many recent scientific advances would not have been possible without a parallel increase in computing power - and with revolutionary technologies such as the quantum computer edging towards reality, what will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years?
This Nature web focus combines commentaries from leading scientists and news features analysis from journalists assessing how computing science concepts and techniques may transform mainstream science by 2020. Visit News@nature.com's newsblog to read and post comments on the future of computing. Image: Joe Magee
Current research
NEWS FEATURE
2020 computing: Champing at the bits
Philip Ball
Nature 440, 398–401 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440398a
NEWS FEATURE
2020 computing: Milestones in scientific computing
Jacqueline Ruttimann
Nature 440, 399–405 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440399a
NEWS FEATURE
2020 computing: Everything, everywhere
Declan Butler
Nature 440, 402–405 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440402a
COMMENTARY
2020 computing: Exceeding human limits
Stephen H. Muggleton
Nature 440, 409–410 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440409a
COMMENTARY
2020 computing: The creativity machine
Vernor Vinge
Nature 440, 411–412 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440411a
COMMENTARY
2020 computing: Science in an exponential world
Alexander Szalay and Jim Gray
Nature 440, 413–414 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440413a
COMMENTARY
2020 computing: Can computers help explain biology?
Roger Brent and Jehoshua Bruck
Nature 440, 416–417 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440416a
COMMENTARY
2020 computing: A two-way street to science's future
Ian Foster
Nature 440, 419 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/440419a
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Web links
- Centre for Quantum Computation, Oxford University
- Quantum computation: a tutorial
- Wikipedia entry on Quantum Computers
- The Stanford University-U.C. Berkeley-MIT-IBM NMR Quantum Computation Project
- Quantum Computation/Cryptography at Los Alamos
- Quantum Information and Information Physics at IBM Research Yorktown
- Institute for Quantum Computing
- Physical Sciences Research, AT&T Bell Labs
- US National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative
- US NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative brochure
- National Ecological Observatory Network
- Earthscope project
- Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College (CISBIC)
- Seti@home
- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)
- OnMMORPG - the free MMORPG source
- MMORPG.com
- Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
- The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
- LifeUnderYourFeet.org
- Cornell University's arXiv.org
- International Virtual Observatory Alliance
Archive
AUTHORS
Making the paper: Onur Hosten
A quantum computer can solve problems without running a program.
Nature 439, xv (23 February 2006) doi:10.1038/7079xva
BUSINESS
Computer hardware: Silicon down to the wire
Nature 436, 22–23 (7 July 2005) doi:10.1038/436022a
NEWS FEATURES
Quantum physics: The philosopher of photons
Quirin Schiermeier
Nature 434, 1066 (28 April 2005) doi:10.1038/4341066a
NEWS FEATURES
Condensed matter physics: Some like it cold
Karen Fox
Nature 434, 430–431 (24 March 2005) doi:10.1038/434430a
NEWS AND VIEWS
Quantum information: To compute or not to compute?
Jonathan P. Dowling
Nature 439, 919–920 (23 February 2006) doi:10.1038/439919a
Quantum computing: Against the odds of imperfection
Daniel Lidar
Nature Physics 1, 145–146 (01 Dec 2005) doi:10.1038/nphys182
Quantum computing: A bit chilly
Leonard J. Schulman
Nature 438, 431–432 (24 November 2005) doi:10.1038/438431a
ESSAY
A better than perfect match
Vlatko Vedral
Nature 439, 397 (26 January 2006) doi:10.1038/439397a
A quantum recipe for life
Paul Davies
Nature 437, 819 (6 October 2005) doi:10.1038/437819a
ARTICLE
Experimental one-way quantum computing
P. Walther et al.
Nature 434, 169–176 (10 March 2005) doi:10.1038/nature03347
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LETTERS
Gain without inversion in semiconductor nanostructures
M. D. Frogely et al.
Nature Materials 5, 175–178 (2006) doi:10.1038/nmat1586
Bang-bang control of fullerene qubits using ultrafast phase gates
John J. L. Morton et al.
Nature Physics 2, 40–43 (01 Jan 2006) doi:10.1038/nphys192
Scaling of entanglement close to a quantum phase transition
A. Osterloh et al.
Nature 416, 608–610 (14 May 2005) doi:10.1038/416608a