President Obama's Scientific Legacy

The scientific legacy of Apollo

This December marks 40 years since Gene Cernan and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned safely to Earth. This anniversary has been given additional poignancy by the death earlier this year of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon with Apollo 11 in July 1969. The history of the Apollo project, and its geopolitical motivation within the context ...

Scalable Execution of Legacy Scientific Codes

This paper presents Weaves, a language neutral framework for scalable execution of legacy parallel scientific codes. Weaves supports scalable threads of control and multiple namespaces with selective sharing of state within a single address space. We resort to two examples for illustration of different aspects of the framework and to stress the diversity of its application domains. The more exp...

The Scientific Legacy of Stephen Rothman

The year 2014 marks the centennial of events that led to the First World War ("the war to end all wars") following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. It also marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Stephen Rothman and the 60th anniversary of the publication of his epic textbook The Physiology and Biochemistry of the Skin. In this review, we doc...

Ultrafast scientific lasers expand on their legacy

While ultrafast (picosecond and femtosecond) lasers are an essential subset of the lasers used today in industry and the medical arena (for example, machining glass for smartphone screens for the former, and laser eye surgery for the latter), it is the use of ultrafast lasers in research that allows such lasers to show their true colors, sometimes literally. Indeed, science is where it all bega...

The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy