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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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From The Front Lines of ADASS XXIII – Day One
The 23rd Annual Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems (ADASS) is being held this week in Wailkoloa, Hawaii, and I will be reporting on the action. The conference includes oral presentations, posters, demos and Birds of A Feather sessions. This … Continue reading
Posted in archives, astroinformatics, Astronomy, computer modeling, cyberinfrastructure, Data Management, Data mining, ESA, Gaia, High performance computing, informatics, information sharing, Internet, Parallelization, programming, Scientific computing, software engineering, software maintenance, software sustainability, W. M. Keck Observatory
Tagged astroinformatics, astronomy, computing, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, Data mining, high-performance computing, information sharing, parallelization, scientific computing, social media, software, software maintenance, software sustainability
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dot Astronomy 5 Conference From A Distance
Last week, the fifth annual dot Astronomy conference was held in Cambridge, MA. This event is a little different from other conferences: its goal is to advance the use of new compute technologies in the service of astronomy, from computing … Continue reading
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Tagged astroinformatics, astronomy, cloud computing, computer videos, computing, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, Data mining, education, Grid Computing, high-performance computing, information sharing, parallelization, scientific computing, social media, social networking, software, software maintenance, software sustainability, Web 2.0
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Why you should write buggy software with as few features as possible (no, really!)
This is the title of a presentation by Brian Granger at last month’s SciPy2013 meeting (see also last week’s post). Now, I certainly concur that software should not be feature rich, but the idea that it should be buggy as … Continue reading
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SciPy 2013 From A Distance
SciPy 2013 was the twelfth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, held this year in Austin, TX, from June 24 to June 29. I was unable to attend, so I am giving this report from a distance based on the … Continue reading
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Data Visualization from Data to Discovery: A One Day Symposium
On May 23, 2o13, Caltech, JPL and the Art Center College of Design held a one-day symposium on Data Visualization from Data to Discovery, and the talks have recently been posted on YouTube. The thrust of this multidisciplinary conference was … Continue reading
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Astronomy and Computing: A New Peer Reviewed Astronomy Journal
Some of my posts here have expressed my long held view that astronomy needs a journal devoted to the application of computer science/IT to astronomy. There are I think two reasons why such a journal is needed. One is that … Continue reading
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Crowdsourced Astronomy – A Talk By Carolina Ödman-Govender
This is a talk given by Carolina Ödman-Govender, given at the re:publica 13 meeting, on May 8 2013. She gives a fine general introduction to the value of crowdsourcing in astronomy, and invites people to get in touch with her … Continue reading
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Videos On Planck’s Recent Findings
This is a little off my usual beat, but like so many people, I was excited by Planck’s extraordinary map of the Cosmic Background Radiation, the most detailed look yet at the Universe soon after the Big Bang. I have … Continue reading
The Keck Observatory Celebrates 20 Years Of Operation
The W. M. Keck Observatory went into operation twenty years ago, and at the time its twin 10m-telescopes made it the largest observatory in the world. It has been a phenomenally successful observatory, and has made important discoveries in many … Continue reading
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The Keck Observatory Archive Is Expanding to Serve All Instruments
This year sees the W.M. Keck Observatory celebrating its 20th birthday, and the observatory is marking the anniversary with a series of events for astronomers and for the general public. The Observatory has had enormous impact on astronomical research, and … Continue reading
