Category Archives: social media

Cloud Computing Is Not A New Idea!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

While doing the research for a talk on cloud computing at Space Telescope next week,  my eyes were opened to the history of cloud computing. We all know, of course, of the commercial cloud offerings of the Amazon Elastic Compute … Continue reading →

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Two Useful Books From Dr. Dobbs’ Jolt Awards

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

A change of pace this week.  Each year, the Dr Dobbs Journal recognizes its choices of the six best books in software development with the Jolt Awards.  I’d like to write about two of them that took my eye: Mining … Continue reading →

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The Astrophysics Source Code Library

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

The Astrophysics Source Code Library is a free on-line reference library of astrophysical source codes  used to generate results published in or submitted to a refereed journal. The library housed on the discussion forum for Astronomy Picture of the Day … Continue reading →

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Special Issue of Science Magazine On Dealing With Data

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

Astronomers are well aware of the explosive growth of public data in their field. The same is true of all the physical sciences. The well respected journal Science recently published a special on-line issue of 30 papers on managing data … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Digital Scientist

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

The International Science Grid This Week has now become the  Digital Scientist. The change reflects the modern landscape of scientific computing in this era of the “data tsunami,” where clouds, high performance clusters and grids, as well as the humble … Continue reading →

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An Example Of How Web 2.0 Can Be Used In Professional Astronomy

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

I discuss in this post some ideas for how Web 2.0 can be used in professional astronomy, and the example I will used is that of building collaborative astronomical image mosaics from a collection of input images with the Montage … Continue reading →

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Report From The U.K. All-Hands e-Science Meeting

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

I attended this meeting, held in Cardiff, Wales, from 13-16 September 2010.  This is the ninth  annual UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), with the theme of e-Science:  novel research, new science and enduring impact. My previous two posts … Continue reading →

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25 Things for Researchers and Social Media!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

This week, I am attending the U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting in Cardiff,  Wales, and I will write blog posts about talks I enjoyed. I have often wondered about the use of social media and Web 2.0  in scientific research, … Continue reading →

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