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Bruce Berriman is an astronomer and computer scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology.-
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Category Archives: Web 2.0
Cloud Computing Is Not A New Idea!
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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Introducing the Digital Scientist
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
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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Preserving Data and the Data Conservancy
A report by the U.S. National Academies entitled “Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age” made this comment: “Research data and other information integral to publicly reported results should be publicly accessible… research data … Continue reading
Report From The U.K. All-Hands e-Science Meeting
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!
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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