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Cover: Supercomputing in the field of materials science is the focus of this issue of access. Some applications in this discipline aid the R&D of more sophisticated microprocessors to drive compute engines. Creativity, which energizes this science, is represented by the butterfly--a time-honored symbol of the creative mind. Cover rendered in Adobe Photoshop on a Macintosh system; output to color separations on a Crosfield 646 scanner. (Concept and illustration, Carlton Bruett; technical support, Alan Schwenk; research, Fran Bond.)

Contacts Directory

Editor's Note: Materials science research at NCSA

Research

• What is materials science?
• Seeing into the quantum world
• Manipulating atoms
• Understanding high-temperature superconductivity
• Atomic-level computer simulations in materials science
• Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

Education

• What education ought to be: Perspectives of youth
• NCSA's new undergrad internships

Industrial Program

• United Technologies is NCSA's newest partner
• Special interest group in CFD

Book Review

• A ``Whole Data Catalog'' for Researchers

Center Activities

• 1993 SuperQuest winners
• NCSA staff and REL students produce CNN opener