Category Archives: user communities

The VAO Community Day in Tucson

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) held its latest community day in Tucson, AZ, on March 13, attended by nearly 50 members of the Tucson astronomical community. These community days are an important part of our professional outreach: we go on … Continue reading →

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Report from the UK e-Science Meeting 2011

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

Last week, I attended the UK  e-Science Meeting 2011 meeting, held at the splendid Ron Cooke Hub at the University of York. This year’s topic was Towards the Cloud: Infrastructures, Applications, Research. I gave a presentation on The Application of … Continue reading →

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Help! My Software Has Turned Into A Techno Turkey!

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

This is the title of a presentation I gave today at an internal symposium at IPAC, and I thought I would post it here. The title refers to the fact that a lot of scientific software developed on desktops will … Continue reading →

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