Technology Will Continue to be the Driver of Change
Technology Will Continue to be the Driver of Change
From the late-1950s to now, R&D Magazine has been proud to provide you with new products and technologies. But, take a look at what’s still to come.
This year we celebrate 50 years of publishing R&D Magazine, which has been dedicated throughout that past half century to providing scientists and engineers working in R&D labs with the technical information they need to do their jobs better. R&D was founded as Industrial Research (IR) with the name change to R&D occurring in the mid-1980s to reflect the significant contributions of government and academic researchers. The founder, Neil P. Ruzic, was a lifelong supporter of research, creating at one time an island for independent research in the Caribbean.
Advances in Experimentation for Improving Products and Processes
Computing has revolutionized our testing capacity, but efficient design of experimentation remains a valuable tool for success.
We have come a long way in harnessing the power of scientific experimentation, and many of the most important advances have come along in the last few years as computing power has enabled new ideas to emerge and become practical. Here is a brief history of the state of the art in experimentation.
Transforming Technologies for Biology and Medicine in the 21st Century
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained. -Freeman J. Dyson
The biggest challenge for biology and medicine in the 21st century, as for most other scientific and engineering disciplines, is complexity. Biology is uniquely challenged and is strongly positioned to attack the problems of biological complexity with new strategies (a systems view of biology and medicine), an emerging integrative view of biology (as an informational science), and new technologies for measurement and visualization as well as the emergence of computational and mathematical tools for dealing with complex data sets.
Into the Looking Glass: Battelle Experts Forecast Future Technologies
Battelle scientists periodically prognosticate about future developments in science and technology. A sampling of predictions was prepared for the 50th Anniversary issue of R&D.
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Parallel Computing, Parallel Development
As software design adjusts to multicore processors, workforces are also aligning to a new distributed model.
R&D organizations are facing two significant challenges: maximizing the emerging mainstream computing model of parallel computing resources and getting the most out of parallel human resources located around the globe.
Winning an R&D 100 Award—Innovation Meets Entry Submission
An R&D 100 Award pays dividends that go beyond the plaque on the wall.
Bryce Tappan and his brother grew up interested in science and were “partners in crime for all the backyard experiments,” he recalls. So when Tappan, a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, N.M., learned he had won an R&D 100 Award, his brother, now a staff member at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., was among the first with whom he shared the good news.
