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Consilience: The Path to Innovation
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/0305/021909_Reed_Dan_250.large.JPG?1235078102&1235078101 "Microsoft Research Director Daniel Reed")
I believe solutions to many of the most challenging problems facing our society – medicine and health care, climate and the environment, economic security and privacy – will require fusing expertise from multiple disciplines, including computing. Filling those disciplinary interstices is both our challenge and our opportunity
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