"I don't need the money, I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't really intellectually interesting for me." Jim Scapa, founder and chief executive of software maker Altair Engineering, was explaining ...

A University of Utah chemist will lead a new $3.5 million project to develop the next generation of computer simulation technology to study collections of molecules, including their chemical reactions ...

Even in the early days of computing, businesses were looking at computers as tools for setting up complex simulations. Some credit Keith Douglas Tocher for developing the first discrete-event ...