Archive for the ‘Software Carpentry’ Category
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
The Software Carpentry course site is still getting a fair bit of traffic, although readership is definitely tailing off:
I'm hoping to run an intensive three-week version of the course in June 2009 in Toronto (details to follow); hope I can find time between now and then to finish wikifying the ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Co-located with ICSE 2009 - Vancouver, Canada
http://www.cs.ua.edu/~SECSE09
Overview
This workshop is concerned with the development of:
Scientific software applications, where the focus is on directly solving scientific problems. These applications include, but are not limited to, large parallel models/simulations ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Via The Great Beyond:
The US National Academy of Sciences has created an initiative that will link TV and movie directors with scientists and engineers to incorporate more accurate science content into entertainment.
Press release here, web site here. That would be a cool job...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Via Nature: politicians from the UK Conservative Party will be required to take science lessons. On the one hand, kind of sad that they didn't learn the basics in grade school. On the other hand, yay!, and when will Canadian parties require the same?
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Over 1900 people have already responded to our survey of how scientists use computers, and it still has two weeks left to run. Our next task will be to analyze the data we've collected, which (among other things) means coding people's free-form descriptions of their specialties so that we can ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
While we're running our survey of how scientists use computers, the folks at MATLAB are asking their users a few questions too. If you use any MathWorks products, and have a few minutes, they'd be grateful for your help.
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
1731 people have completed our survey of how scientists use computers since it went online three weeks ago. That's pretty cool, but I'd like to double the number (at least). If you consider yourself a working scientist, and haven't taken the survey yet, please take a moment and do so. ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Via Cameron Neylon, a workshop in London in November on finding and re-using open scientific resources. Wish I could go...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Computers are as important to modern scientists as test tubes, but we know surprisingly little about how scientists develop and use software in their research. To find out, the University of Toronto, Simula Research Laboratory, and the National Research Council of Canada have launched an online survey in conjunction ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I'm at the "Science in the 21st Century" conference at the Perimeter Institute today. There are 32 people in the room right now: 23 are male and 9 are female, but only one is non-Caucasian, which pretty much matches the numbers in the picture from the conference dinner last ...
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