February 25, 2005
High-Tech Renaissance
The leader of a new supercomputing institute in North Carolina reaches out to all disciplinesThe University of North Carolina is paying Daniel A. Reed a whole lot of money -- more than its chancellor, more than its system president -- to start what he says will be "a halfway house for crazy ideas."
How crazy? Mr. Reed, the former director of one of the nation's largest supercomputer centers, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wants to put super-fast
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