The Boundary Hunters

Communications of the ACM 

Among the most challenging and satisfying of human endeavors is to push the limits of knowledge beyond the known boundaries. I call those who pursue these objectives the "boundary hunters." Who are these people who go where no one has gone before? They are the scientists, the researchers, the engineers, the theoreticians, and the explorers who wonder what might lie beyond what we think we know and understand. They go past the familiar into terra incognita.