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Thursday, March 13, 2003
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Hubble Spies Evaporating Planet: "Scientists have determined that a planet orbiting a sun-like star 150 light-years from Earth is evaporating. According to a report published today in the journal Nature, much of the hot gas giant may eventually disappear, leaving a dense core behind." [Scientific American > t e c h n o c u l t u r e]
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Lecturing to the Gray Panthers of Finnish IT -- Comment()
Yesterday I made a half-hour lecture to the so-called Gray Panthers of the Finnish Information Processing Association. The audience consisted of ten retired gentlemen (no women, which was not a surpise) with high-profile careers in the Finnish IT sector: ex-CEOs of big IT companies, or otherwise influential figures in Finnish IT. This Gray Panther group has been active for about three years. The group regularly visits interesting IT sites to find out what currently happens in Finland. This time the meeting started with a quiet moment, because one member of the group had recently passed away. My lecture was in Finnish and titled "Computational Science Today: Supercomputers and Databases". It was nice to lecture to this group, because there were a lot of questions (to the point!) and comments. Perhaps my rate of lecturing was a bit fast, but I think I managed to give a relatively clear picture of current developments in computational science in Finland, especially in biosciences, chemistry, and drug discovery.
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