SIMULATION, & COMMUNICATION, AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE PROGRESS OF SIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND EDUCATION A short report on the modern trends of computation, simulation, and com-munication in the 1990s is presented, along with their impacts on the progress of scientific & engineering research, development, and education. A full description of this giant issue is certainly a “mission impossible” for the author. Nevertheless, it is the author’s hope that it will at least give an overall view about what is going on in this very dynamic field in the advanced countries. After “thinking globally” thru reading this report, we should then decide on “what & how to act locally” to respond to these global trends. The main source of information reported here were the computational science & engineering journals & books issued during the 1990s as listed in the references below. M. Bunjamin; FMIPA – Univ. Indonesia & Univ. Nasional,
