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"The Purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
-- Richard Hamming
Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
"The greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue."
-- Plato
Apology
"Innumerable challenges await us, but we can expect success if we begin with a will to succeed."
-- Raymond Klassen
Overcoming the Gravity of Comfort
"The power of computers to collect, store and manipulate numbers has increased dramatically since Hamming's pointed observation. Much of this increased power, however, is wasted because humans are poor at gaining insight from data presented in numerical form. As a result, visualization research takes on great significance, offering a promising technology for transforming an indigestible mass of numbers into a medium which humans can understand, interpret and explore.
The transformation from numbers to insight requires two stages. As shown in Figure 1, the first maps from numbers (data/processes) to images by means of some algorithmic technique. The second maps from images to insight by means of perception. A true science of visualization must incorporate both a formal theory of computer graphics and a theory of human perception."
Marc Green, Ph. D.
Toward a Perceptual Science of Multidimensional Data Visualization:
Bertin and Beyond
As Green suggests concerning computation and scientific visualization, so we are proposing (along with others) with regards to computation and discourse: the processes and methods that would enchance creativity, collaborative decision making and group discernment are at hand. --Ben Tremblay, 26JULY04
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I have for all my mature life been impressed by people's tenacity, and in no specific more than discussion, whether in electronic forums or newspapers' letters to the editor; as though the deep urge to gather by the fire moving us to congregate and exchange views ... as Y. Bar Hillel put it: "I am reasonably sure that humanity spends more time on argumentation in natural languages than on the pursuit of scientific knowledge." !Q!
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