Archive for September, 2005
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
I just received word that I'll be running a workshop on the aims, benefits, and curriculum of the Software Carpentry course at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St Louis on Friday, February 17. The AAAS AM is the biggest gathering of ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
On Saturday, Turbogears, a new python web "mega" framework was released. I was very impressed, because:
* It builds on tools that I think are the most promising: SQLObject, CherryPy
* It shows you exactly how to connect these tools with a templating system, Kid, to provide a complete solution like ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Week two of Software Carpentry, and things are starting to settle down. There are now 93 (!) people signed up for the course:
U of T
Elsewhere
Auditing
18
21
Enrolled
25
Unknown
29
Of those actually at the University of Toronto (as opposed to the
local hospitals---a few radiologists are sitting in) the breakdown
is:
16
Computer Science
14
Physics
9
Civil Engineering
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
5
Biochemistry
Institute ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
The Toronto edition of the Software Carpentry course met for the first time on Monday. 51 people crammed into a room with seating for 34 (and no air conditioning, on an unseasonably warm day): medical biophysicists, computer scientists, civil engineers, and even a couple of faculty members.
I was pleased ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2005
I'm collecting articles from participants in Google's Summer of Code for Doctor Dobb's Journal. We're going to run 4-8 articles, each roughly 400 words long, for several months. It's pretty cool stuff---I'm awed by the talent of the students who took part.
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Friday, September 9th, 2005
Focus on Java has just published an interview with me about Data Crunching.
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
If you're at the University of Toronto (or even if you're not), you might be interested in the lineup for the Fall 2005 Distinguished Lecture Series:
Sep 6Moshe Vardi, Rice (Logic)
Sep 13Herb Grosch
Sep 20Pamela Zave, At&T (Software Engeneering)
Sep 30Avi Wigderson, IAS (Theory)
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