2360 and All That

This talk will explore the concept of a long-lived, self-substantiating, computational document that allows the interested reader to sample the reported work, first hand, right down to its smallest detail. Imagine, for instance, a student in 2360 (the 700th anniversary of The Royal Society) downloading the two issues of Phil. Trans. A that contain AHM2008 and being willing and able to dissect the reported computational thinking. The talk will include a concrete reworking of Short, Kapila and Quirk (Phil. Trans A. (1999) 357, pp. 3621-3637) to show why such a computational future is worth striving for. For additional background, see www.reproducibleresearch.org.

Dr. James Quirk is a Scientist with Desktop Aronautics, Inc., Palo Alto. His research interests include: adaptive mesh refinement for high speed flows, shock-capturing methods, detonation phenomena, validation and verification of numerical methods, software methodologies to support reproducible research. For more details see:

http://www.amrita-ebook.org/doc/amr2003