摘要

This lecture follows the historical rise of computation from a supporting practice of calculation to a constitutive force in scientific knowledge. It begins with manual methods that gradually became mechanized, then examines how Cold War institutions and funding transformed computing into an indispensable infrastructure. New machines and community codes opened ways of working that escaped older distinctions between theory and experiment. Examples from molecular dynamics and climate science illustrate how credibility moved away from ideals of transparency toward predictive reliability, and how knowledge came to command authority even when the reasoning processes behind it remained only partially accessible.

主讲人：马大年

马大年（Daniele Macuglia），意大利托尔梅佐人，生于1984年。曾就读于意大利Pavia大学和Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS)，均以最高荣誉毕业，后赴美国芝加哥大学深造。在欧洲青年科学家竞赛和意大利物理奥林匹克中获奖。他与诺贝尔奖得主Martin Karplus、Benoît Roux、Giovanni Ciccotti及洛伦兹奖章获得者Daan Frenkel等国际知名学者合作，研究计算机模拟及物理学史。现为北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授，博士生导师。