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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Archive for October 9th, 2013

 

2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Awarded for Computer Modeling of Chemical Processes

October 9th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

Today (October 9, 2013), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Martin Karplus of Harvard University and the Universite de Strasbourg, Michael Levitt of the Stanford University of Medicine, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California.  The three devised methods which combined classical physics and quantum physics to more accurately model and understand chemical reactions. From the Academy announcement: Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers. In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand […]