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Science 28 February 1986:
Vol. 231. no. 4741, pp. 943 - 950
DOI: 10.1126/science.231.4741.943
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Computer Networking for Scientists

DENNIS M. JENNINGS 1, LAWRENCE H. LANDWEBER 2, IRA H. FUCHS 3, DAVID J. FARBER 4, and W. RICHARDS ADRION 5

1 Program director for networking at the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing, Washington, DC 20550., University College, Dublin, where he is director of the University Computing Service.
2 Professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.
3 Vice president for computing and information technology at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
4 Professor of electrical engineering and of computer science at the University of Delaware, Newark 19716.
5 Deputy director of the Division of Computer Research at the National Science Foundation.

Scientific research has always relied on communication for gathering and providing access to data; for exchanging information; for holding discussions, meetings, and seminars; for collaborating with widely dispersed researchers; and for disseminating results. The pace and complexity of modern research, especially collaborations of researchers in different institutions, has dramatically increased scientists' communications needs. Scientists now need immediate access to data and information, to colleagues and collaborators, and to advanced computing and information services. Furthermore, to be really useful, communication facilities must be integrated with the scientist's normal day-to-day working environment. Scientists depend on computing and communications tools and are handicapped without them.


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