Dan Reed

A few thoughts on digital privacy, AI, augmented reality, and the panopticon: hpcdan.org/2026/02/23/the…

A perspective on AI and HPC, co-authored with Jack Dongarra and Dennis Gannon. To flourish, scientific computing must adapt to seven new realities, which we outlined in Ride the Wave, Build the Future: Scientific Computing in an AI World: hpcdan.org/2026/02/06/hpc…

A few thoughts on being a geek, international travel, and dress codes: hpcdan.org/2026/01/08/gee…

The National Science Board (NSB) recently completed its three year review of the merit review process, an effort begun when I was NSB chair. It reaffirmed the power of independent peer review. hpcdan.org/2025/12/19/nsb…

This little morality piece is a musing on the importance of reason, and the dangers of its loss: hpcdan.org/2025/11/16/can…

Participating in a Department of Energy JLab advisory committee today. Quarks, gluons, and hadrons -- where QCD theory meets experiment.

A few personal thoughts on building interinstitutional and interdisciplinary teams to address research and societal problems: hpcdan.org/2025/10/27/ren…

Jim Olds offers wise advice to young grant proposal writers: jim-olds.org/2025/10/23/wha…

A vision of the future of computer-mediated education, written 25 years ago, with a current retrospective: hpcdan.org/2025/10/15/a-2…

A few personal thoughts on 50 years of digital computing history: hpcdan.org/2025/09/30/cou…

Heading to Washington, DC to chair the committee on Future Directions for NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/fu…

I recently ported my Reed’s Ruminations blog (hpcdan.org) from Typepad to Wordpress. Here are a few thoughts (and memories) on ~20 years of blogging: hpcdan.org/2025/09/26/hpc…

After decades, it is finally here! One of my final acts as NCSA Director -- twenty years ago -- was to commit NCSA to help with data archive design. I also oversaw it as chair of the National Science Board A&F Committee and as NSB chair. nsf.gov/news/first-ima…

An old post, but annually relevant during NCAA March Madness -- the zone and the magic, the unity of sports and research passions: hpcdan.org/reeds_ruminati…