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preface
I started working on my PhD thesis in 1995 at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. My work was mainly focused on the acoustic wave equation, and I needed to combine theoretical models with experimental data, which, of course, required data processing and visualization. Around that same time, a new programming language named Java was unveiled. Several things made Java attractive for scientific work, including its portability to different platforms, which made it easy to create applications with a user interface and execute them on the various platforms I was working on.
However, it occurred to me that there was a large gap between the scientific world and the IT world. While researchers in science are typically ...
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