Marcel van der Veer - More on "Physics"

More on "Physics"

Marcel van der Veer

Education
Ex nihilo nihil fit
January 2024

Every now and then I have this discussion with fellow scientists - can a modern scientist believe in God? …

Marcel van der Veer

Education
Academic rite of passage
April 2023

A research project resembles a book or a movie, in the sense that it is never truly finished …

Marcel van der Veer

Education
Beyond the multiverse
January 2023

A recent study suggests that during the last decades less and less groundbreaking scientific discoveries were made …

Marcel van der Veer

Science
Warp speed, mister Sulu!
October 2022

Hardly anyone will dispute that Einstein's general theory of relativity is well established now …

Marcel van der Veer

Computing history
VM/CMS and MVS/TSO reunited
October 2021

Virtualisation began half a century ago as a method of sharing mainframe resources between different operating systems, applications or users …

Marcel van der Veer

Tech Tips
Let the music play on - vintage HiFi
July 2018

Lately I needed to call on some of my now rusty electronics skills since I came into some older HiFi equipment in need of attention …

Marcel van der Veer

Science
Classical thermodynamics in a nutshell
November 2017

Recently I met during an event at my Alma Mater, the University of Nijmegen, my high school physics teacher …

Marcel van der Veer

Algol 68
A brief history of Algol 68 Genie
November 2016

Being the author of Algol 68 Genie, people frequently ask me why a physical chemist wrote an Algol 68 compiler …

Marcel van der Veer

Science
Digital version of doctorate thesis
January 2016

Digital version (extended) of Marcel's 1992 doctorate thesis …

Marcel van der Veer

Algol 68
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68
June 2009

This is a translation of the Algol 68 Revised Report into HTML, for distribution with Algol 68 Genie, an Open Source Algol 68 interpreter …