Monthly Archives: March 2012

NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data – Webcast

Posted on March 31, 2012 by astrocompute

On March 29, the Federal Government held  a webcast Federal government science leds from OSTP, NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, DARPA and USGS outlined how their agencies are engaged in Big Data research, followed by a panel of thought leaders from … Continue reading →

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The VAO Community Day in Tucson

Posted on March 26, 2012 by astrocompute

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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Technical Articles and Reproducibility – A Lesson From Biostatistics?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by astrocompute

Last week, I wrote an essay about about a paper by Darrel Ince, Leslie Hatton and John Graham-Cumming that argued for open computer programs as an essential component of verifying and reproducing computer intensive research results published in peer-reviewed journals. … Continue reading →

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Making The Case for Open Computer Programs

Posted on March 9, 2012 by astrocompute

Darrel Ince, Leslie Hatton and John Graham-Cumming have recently made a cogent argument for open computer programs in a paper in Nature called  “The case for open computer programs.” (Nature, 482, 485-488. 23 February 2012. doi:10.1038/nature10836). They argue that for … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing: Is It Powerful and Can It Lead to Bankruptcy?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by astrocompute

This is the title of a presentation I gave at the Space Telescope Science Institute on February 23.  You can view the talk as an  STScI Webcast Presentation. I talked about a brief history of cloud computing, then talked about … Continue reading →

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