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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 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
Ex nihilo nihil fit
January 2024

Every now and then I have this discussion with fellow scientists - can a modern scientist believe in God? …


Marcel van der Veer EDUCATION
Academic rite of passage
April 2023

A research project resembles a book or a movie, in the sense that it is never truly finished …


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 EDUCATION
Warp speed, mister Sulu!
October 2022

Hardly anyone will dispute that Einstein's general theory of relativity is well established now …


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 TECHNOLOGY
Let the music play on - vintage HiFi
July 2018

Lately I needed to call on some of my now rusty electronics skills since I came into some older HiFi equipment in need of attention …


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 …


Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68
September 2008

This is the Revised Report in HTML, for distribution with Algol 68 Genie …


Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68
December 2003

The original text of the Revised Report in its unique but undocumented format …



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