“Communicate First, Standardize Second”
Friday, January 30th, 2009That quote from Jean-Claude Bradley is on slide 34 of Cameron Neylon's presentation "Open Access, Open Data. Open Research?" Very worthwhile...
Archive for January, 2009
That quote from Jean-Claude Bradley is on slide 34 of Cameron Neylon's presentation "Open Access, Open Data. Open Research?" Very worthwhile...
Virtual Instruments in Virtual Worlds
Friday, January 30th, 2009From Intel's Research blog, a post about ScienceSim (a virtual world in which you can build scientific instruments). If I had more energy, I'd include a link to William Gibson saying that our children will find our distinction between the real and the virtual quaint.
Visualizing the Flow of Information in Science
Friday, January 30th, 2009Wow: the folks at Eigenfactor have created some stunning and useful visualizations of citation patterns in science. Lots of fun to play with... (via The Great Beyond)
Calling All High School Science Teachers (Preferably in Toronto)
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Jon Pipitone has written a succinct description of his (increasingly likely) thesis direction. If you're a high school science teacher, or know any (preferably in Toronto), I'm sure he'd like to hear from you.
Congratulations to Samira, Jeremy, and Carolyn
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009I just handed in paperwork to say that Samira Ashtiani Abdi, Jeremy Handcock, and Carolyn MacLeod have completed their Master of Science degrees in Computer Science, and that Samira and Carolyn should be admitted to the PhD. (Jeremy's going to go be a ski bum instead.) Congratulations to all three---I'm ...
Some Recent Papers I’ve Liked
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Cory J. Kapser and Michael W. Godfrey: "'Cloning considered harmful' considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software." Empirical Software Engineering, 2008, 13:645-692, DOI 10.1007/s10664-008-9076-6. "...we have found significant evidence that cloning is often used in a variety of ways as a principled engineering tool." Comes with a catalog of beneficial cloning ...
Web Native Lab Notebooks
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Good post from Cameron Neylon about the lab notebooks of the future: "The traditional paper notebook is to the fully integrated web based lab record as a card index is to Google."
What Else Would You Like to See?
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009I've updated my list of unwritten books; what else would you like to see?
7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009I've been tagged by Michelle Levesque and David Bolter, so I figure I better respond: My father was my English teacher from Grade 8 to Grade 12. (It was a small town...) My first paid-for publication was a description of an Inuit cult for a role-playing game I'd never actually played. ...
CUSEC 2009
Monday, January 26th, 2009I didn't go, but some of my students did, and they seem to have had a good time.