Many disciplines were involved, from software engineering, computer language and artificial intelligence research to telecommunication, space and industrial applications, together with the standard HENP developments. This pluri-disciplinary aspect of the series has lead to the opening of the domain of the workshops to all aspects of physics research, where common problems may have common solutions and to pave the way for possible future collaborations.
Computer technologies evolve rapidly.
Even on the time scale of our workshop series the scene has changed remarkably, and physicists must update their knowledge periodically in order to work effectively. Thus it is necessary to bring together on a regular basis not only the physicists, but also computer scientists, electrical engineers, and experts from industry, in order to keep abreast of developments which may be useful to us for future endeavours. Condensed matter, solid state, plasma physics, telecommunication and astro-physics, are all evolving toward more sophisticated computing activities to handle the exponentially growing amount of data and to fulfil the requirement of an increasing level of measurement or calculational accuracy. Dealing with artificial intelligence methods or techniques, the workshop will also be covering Neuro-science developments leading to application in physics researches. Incentives for creating working groups on specific issues like standardization are very strong.