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2012 in review: Thank you!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by astrocompute

Thank-you everyone for reading my blog, suggesting topics, and for your continuing enthusiasm and support. Bruce, aka Astrocompute The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the … Continue reading →

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Keck Science Meeting On YouTube!

Posted on September 21, 2012 by astrocompute

This year’s Keck Observatory Science meeting was held at UC San Diego, and included two days of talks and posters describing the most recent astronomical science conducted at the W. M. Keck Observatory.  The presentations included John Johnson (Caltech) on … Continue reading →

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Adoption of Software by a User Community: The Montage Image Mosaic Engine

Posted on August 5, 2012 by astrocompute

This week’s post will be about building user communities, the topic of a paper I submitted for consideration for presentation at the Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science Workshop at the  8th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012 in Chicago (Oct 8-12). … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: A Request for More Transparent Archives

Posted on July 18, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, we have a Guest Post from Amit Kapadia. He is a software developer for the Zooniverse based at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. His interests are in developing research grade web applications and software. Recently he has started … Continue reading →

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How Can We Use Cloud Computing In Astronomy? .Astronomy4 keynote

Posted on July 10, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, I have had the great pleasure and honor of delivering a keynote address at the .Astronomy 4 conference in Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-11, 2012.  My presentation was on “How Can We Use Cloud Computing In Astronomy?” Download and … Continue reading →

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New Astronomy Projects Take Up The Virtual Observatory

Posted on May 25, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, I have been attending the semi-annual IVOA meeting in Urban-Champaign, Illinois. One of the most interesting series of talks was on how three new observational projects in their commissioning phase are using  Virtual Observatory (VO) services as part … Continue reading →

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NIRC2 Data Released Through the Keck Observatory Archive

Posted on May 4, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) released data from its third instrument, and its first imaging instrument: the Near Infrared Camera 2 (NIRC2). Commissioned in 2001, it is used in imaging and spectroscopic modes, and is equipped with three … Continue reading →

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Astrocompute on Vacation!

Posted on April 3, 2012 by astrocompute

I will be on vacation from April 6 through April 20, and then I will be at the VAO Team Meeting. I will resume blog posts at the beginning of May.    

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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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Cloud Computing Is Not A New Idea!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by astrocompute

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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