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Marcel van der Veer SCIENCE
Thermodynamics ex machina
April 2025

In computational statistical thermodynamics we numerically calculate the results of analytically unsolvable equations …


Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
Partial Least Squares Regression in Algol 68
October 2024

We implement a Partial Least Squares Regression algorithm in a pre-Python language …


Marcel van der Veer COMPUTER HISTORY
Chemometrics algorithms in the original Latin
August 2024

In the days before Python, how did one code machine learning algorithms …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Beyond the multiverse
January 2023

A recent study suggests that during the last decades less and less groundbreaking scientific discoveries were made …


Marcel van der Veer COMPUTER HISTORY
VM/CMS and MVS/TSO reunited
October 2021

Virtualisation began half a century ago as a method of sharing mainframe resources between different operating systems, applications or users …


Marcel van der Veer COMPUTER HISTORY
Algol68C on MVS revisited
August 2018

As the author of Algol 68 Genie I am interested in having access to other Algol 68 compilers for reference purposes …


Marcel van der Veer EDUCATION
Classical thermodynamics in a nutshell
November 2017

Recently I met during an event at my Alma Mater, the University of Nijmegen, my high school physics teacher …


Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
A brief history of Algol 68 Genie
November 2016

Being the author of Algol 68 Genie, people frequently ask me why a physical chemist wrote an Algol 68 compiler …


Marcel van der Veer SCIENCE
Digital version of doctorate thesis
January 2016

Digital version (extended) of Marcel's 1992 doctorate thesis …



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