Daniel Whiteson

And I was like, Mom, I need to have one of these.

and it was a VIC-20, then you go C64, then Amiga 500, that's how we did that.

You had to go Commodore 64, right?

Eventually, yeah, we upgraded.

And then we got a PC, of course.

Of course.

Commodore 64, when you got that floppy drive, which was the 1541, was it just like, how do we...

even fill this thing right I know this is so easy now you have all this RAM and you can write all this stuff to disk and yeah everything became so easy but you know every time we upgrade our computers we create more possibility for what we can do

And there's never a limit.

No matter how powerful our computers are, somebody's going to think of something which requires more computing.

Yes.

And it gives us more power to explore the universe.

It's incredible to me now how much of what we do at CERN, for example, is powered by computers.

We just could not do it without computers.

It's in everything we do.

It's enabled so much of what we understand about the universe.

And you're writing code there, which I think you said you enjoy doing.

I do, yeah.

I have a big research group, people under me carrying out the details of the research.

But there's always one project where I'm the one writing the code, making the plots, responsible for the progress.