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The close of ChemConf’97 at the end of July gives me the opportunity to reflect on the effect of the Internet on scholarship and education in chemistry. This conference was first held in 1993, continued in 1996 and 1997, and is slated to run again September through December of 1997 and February through May of 1998. The quality of the papers presented and discussed at the last session was outstanding. The presenters included many of the premier names in chemical education. The Chemical Educator is proud to serve as an archive for one of those papers. This issue offers as its “sample article,” available free to anyone who registers at our Internet site, a paper presented at ChemConf’97 by Mary L. Swift and Theresa Zielinski. This paper “What Every Chemist Should Know About Computers II” addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of computer technology in chemical education. We are also proud to have Hugh Cartwright, who presented his paper “Nature Doesn’t Solve Equations, So Why Should We? Mathematically-Lean Simulations in Chemistry” at the conference, on our Board of Editors and acting as our Media-Review Editor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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