Enable innovation and efficiency in product design and manufacture by using more powerful simulations. Apply more complex models to better understand and predict the behaviour of the world around us. Process datasets faster and with more advance analyses to extract more reliable and previously hidden insights and opportunities. All ambitions that will probably resonate with those seeking scientific advances, commercial innovation, industrial growth and more cost-effective research....

Winston Churchill once said "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." (for you confirmed pedants, it may have been L.P. Jacks) My custom is to use the time away from work at the end of the year to think about what I want to do differently in the year ahead. Among the topics that came up was e-mail, the bane of my life and perhaps yours as well. I get hundreds every day (and that doesn't include the SPAM). Being a lifelong...

The end of the year at NAG is always celebrated with a rather splendid Christmas lunch, which is generously paid for by the company as an acknowledgement of the hard work its employees have put in over the previous twelve months. Accordingly, it provides an occasion for some much-needed relaxation and refreshment before the Christmas break. It's also the time for the NAG Christmas Quiz which, whilst not necessarily contributing to the participants' relaxation, usually provides some...