DemoCamp in the News
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008DemoCamp made the Financial Post.
Archive for March, 2008
Nice Quote
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008An article about computational science in a scientific publication is not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software development environment and the complete set of instructions which generated the figures. --David L. Donoho, WaveLab and Reproducible Research, 1995, p. 5. (via Andrew ...
Titus Introduces Summer of Code
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008CalTech's Titus Brown has posted a nice screencast introduction to Google Summer of Code. Student applications have to be in on Monday, March 31, so please help get the word out.
First Steps
Monday, March 24th, 2008Madeleine started walking on Saturday. Nothing tentative about it---she just decided she was done with crawling, so she started staggering like a drunken Finn in high seas across the living room floor. And the kitchen floor. And the upstairs hallway. And, well, you get the picture. Yay Maddie!
For The Record
Friday, March 21st, 2008Sadie's gran has passed away --- she was 87, and it had been coming on for several years, but we're all still very sad :-( For the record, when my time comes, I'd like you to (a) recycle everything you can (organs, books, whatever), and (b) get together and tell ...
SciBarCamp
Friday, March 21st, 2008I couldn't attend the first SciBarCamp last weekend (I was three time zones away), but Nature magazine said good things, as others. W00t!
Vote for weMap!
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008One of the teams in my consulting course this term needs your help --- more precisely, your vote. Check out the video for more info.
StreetKnit in the Press Again
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008That's my favorite knitter you're looking at there... :-)
Our Wee David’s All Growed Up
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008David Wolever has made his first commit to the official Python source tree --- congratulations!
Summer of Code Is Up And Running
Monday, March 17th, 2008Leslie Hawthorn has announced the list of blessed organizations for this year's Summer of Code. The next three weeks are crucial: if you're a student, read the FAQ, then READ THE FAQ, then get onto the mailing lists and IRC channels, watch for a couple of days to learn ...