Science for the Millennium

An on-line museum showcases breakthrough computer research conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and offers a glimpse of how the next generation of high-power computers could help scientists.

The World-Wide Web site, called Science for the Millennium, demonstrates recent research at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where Mosaic, the pioneering tool for Internet navigation, was invented. Visitors to the site can read extensive histories of fields such as astrophysics and virtual reality, to which researchers at the center are now applying their supercomputing power.

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