Los Alamos Science 1985 №12

Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985, 125 p.
Popular science magazine about new achievements in physics, experimental techniques and computer simulation.
Articles in this 1985 volume contain harbingers of the future: early numerical simulations that foreshadowed the revolution in supercomputing and visualization, early DNA studies that foreshadowed the Human Genome Project, and a dialogue on mathematics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence that predicts an expanding awareness of the role of intention and choice in the human condition.RESEARCH AND REVIEW.
Photon Impact — High-Energy Plasma Physics with C02 Lasers – (by David W. Forslund and Phillip D. Goldstone).
Supersonic Jets – (by Michael L. Norman and Karl-Heinz A. Winkler).
Genes by Mail – (An interview with L. Scott Cram, Larry L. Deaven, Carl E. Hildebrand, Robert K. Moyzis, and Marvin Van Dilla).PEOPLE.
Mathematics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence – (A dialogue with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp).
On the cover (and overleaf).