August/September 2006

Felix Grant is impressed by a trio of recent add-ons from Maple

At first glance, a laboratory information management system (LIMS) might seem to sit quietly in a laboratory doing its job without really changing. In fact, the reality is far more exciting for this unsung hero of the analytical process, as Siân Harris discovers

Brian Cogan assesses some leading mathematics packages - and finds that an effective comparison is almost impossible

John Murphy profiles Professor Henry Schaefer, a leading light in theoretical computational chemistry at the University of Georgia

Cheaper clusters, multi-core chips, and ever more complex problems to solve mean that the era of desktop supercomputing is upon us. Even Microsoft is getting in on the act, as Tom Wilkie reports

Felix Grant is impressed by a trio of recent add-ons from Maple.