Information and Communications Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century (2003) / Chapter Skim
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1. Introduction: The Human Resource
1. Introduction: The Human Resource
Pages 7-11
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Information and communication tools in chemical science and technology have already provided an unprecedented capability for modeling molecular structures and processes, a capability that has contributed to fundamental new understanding as well as new technological products based on the physical and life sciences. Chemistry and chemical engineering are being transformed by the availability of information technology, modeling capabilities, and computational power.
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All of these goals require increased capability for chemists and chemical engineers to utilize, efficiently and creatively, the capabilities offered by information technology. Advances in the chemical sciences enabled major achievements in medicine, life science, earth science, physics, engineenng, and environmental science.
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The questions addressed in the four breakout sessions were: · Discovery: What major discoveries or advances related to information and communications have been made in the chemical sciences during the last several decades? · Interfaces: What are the major computing-related discoveries and challenges at the interfaces between chemistry-chemical engineering and other disciplines, including biology, environmental science, information science, materials science, and physics?
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The advances in the chemical sciences enabled by exponential growth of computational capability, data storage, and communication bandwidth are by far the most stnking and profound change in the past two decades. This remarkable growth has been stressed elsewhere, i2 and is clearly stated by Jack Dongarra, one of the world's foremost experts in scientific computing, who has argued that ...the rising tide resulting from advances in information technology shows no respect for established order.
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The societal implications are powerful. To deal with these assets, opportunities, and challenges will require both an awareness of the promise and a commitment of financial and human resources to take advantage of the truly revolutionary advances that information technology offers to the world of chemical science.
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