Category Archives: publishing

Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy

Posted on February 2, 2018 by astrocompute

This week,  I am posting a copy of white paper prepared by Shamir et al., in response to a call from the National Academies, who are sponsoring a Task Force on “Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for … Continue reading →

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Summer App Space Innovation Speaker Series

Posted on July 21, 2017 by astrocompute

Summer App Space is a paid apprenticeship for LA students and teachers to learn to program while getting paid to do fun space-related projects, and this year they are funding 12 students to attend a six-week school learning to program … Continue reading →

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A New Python Pipeline for Reducing NIRSPEC Data Acquired at the Keck Observatory

Posted on June 5, 2017 by astrocompute

The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) (https://koa.ipac.caltech.edu) has just released a new data reduction pipeline (NSDRP) for data acquired with the Keck Observatory NIRSPEC cross-dispersed infrared echelle spectrograph. The pipeline is intended to reduce high-resolution (0.947 – 2.63 um) object spectra. … Continue reading →

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Spherical Panoramas for Astrophysical Data Visualization

Posted on February 10, 2017 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper by Brian Kent (NRAO), which has been accepted for publication in the PASP Special Focus Issue: Techniques and Methods for Astrophysical Data Visualization. You can download the paper from arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08807 .(I … Continue reading →

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Just How Should We Cite Astronomy Software?

Posted on August 7, 2015 by astrocompute

The central importance of software in astronomy is generating debates on issues such as how software should be cited, how credit should be accorded to software practitioners, and how software should be preserved and created. The American Astronomical Society (AAS) publishing … Continue reading →

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“Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey” by Momcheva and Tollerud

Posted on July 27, 2015 by astrocompute

This the title of a paper by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud that was recently posted on astro-ph at http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989.  Between December 2014 and February 2015, they carried out an informal survey about software use in astronomy,  marketed mainly through social … Continue reading →

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The 8th Extremely Large Databases Conference and Workshop

Posted on July 17, 2015 by astrocompute

These annual workshops that discuss ” …the real-world challenges, practical considerations, and nuts-and-bolts solutions in the realm of managing and analyzing extreme scale data sets.”  The attendees include Big Data users from industry and science, developers, researchers, and providers. This year’s … Continue reading →

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Why developing research software is like a startup

Posted on March 20, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of a keynote presentation by Neil Chue Hong (Director of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute) at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan (March 15-20, 2015). Neil emphasizes the crucial point that … Continue reading →

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A new blog on computational and software matters

Posted on March 5, 2015 by astrocompute

My colleague Dan Katz has started a new blog, called Daniel S. Katz’s Blog and I wanted to take advantage of Astronomy Computing Today to recommend it to you. Dan is one of the team that built the Montage software. He … Continue reading →

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Licensing Astrophysics Codes session at AAS 225

Posted on January 27, 2015 by astrocompute

On Tuesday, January 6, the ASCL, AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS), and the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment sponsored a special session on software licenses, with support from the AAS. This subject was suggested as a topic of interest … Continue reading →

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