Hardware, software, brainware, noware

Alexander Scheeline

doi:10.1117/12.206025

3 April 1995 Hardware, software, brainware, noware

Alexander Scheeline

Proceedings Volume 2386, Ultrasensitive Instrumentation for DNA Sequencing and Biochemical Diagnostics; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206025
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Developments in politics, communications, economics, and population have all had profound effects on the market for analytical chemical instrumentation. This essay examines the assumptions behind the current training of instrumentation scientists and marketing of instruments, and suggests changes in both. The market must be taken to be all of society, not just technically literate society. Cost tradeoffs between hardware and software are context- dependent. Chemometrics allows extraction of information from data that leaves the typical reductionist scientist queasy. And clever chemistry can sometimes obliterate entire markets. The implications of this evolution are explored.

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Alexander Scheeline "Hardware, software, brainware, noware", Proc. SPIE 2386, Ultrasensitive Instrumentation for DNA Sequencing and Biochemical Diagnostics, (3 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206025

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