ASU's Davies speaks on future of cross boundaries

ASU cosmologist Paul Davies spoke at the Future Summit in Sydney, delivering the message that conservative academics must break free of their intellectual silos and work together on the complex problems looming in the future.

Davies, formerly with Macquarie University in Sydney, told the conference: "It's the new way of doing science. Australia must abolish traditional research boundaries such as biology, chemistry and computing technology and group around themes." Davies argued that researchers must bolster the 300-year-old intellectual tools of observation, experimentation and theory design with high-powered computing systems.