In today's society, computers and various forms of technology are ubiquitous, especially in scientific research. Through an NSF-IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education Research and Training) grant from the National Science Foundation, Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan, has funding to support graduate research fellowships in the applications of high-performance computing. The fellows...
Dr Alan Williams is president of the Manchester Association of University Teachers (AUT) and a former member and chair of the national AUT Contract Research Staff Committee. He's now a lecturer in the department of computer science at the University of Manchester, where he previously held the positions of contract researcher and temporary lecturer. Over the past two decades in the United Kingdom,...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX What I Didn't Want to Be I knew at the end of my first degree that I didn't want to become a professional scientist. After 3 years at Nottingham studying physics, I'd come to the conclusion that, though the general gist of my course amazed and fascinated me, the nitty gritty of the mathematics and the hours sitting in a lab twiddling dials were really not for me. But alr...
