Tag Archives: user communities

Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum

Posted on July 22, 2013 by astrocompute

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is hosting the first Science Forum in Waikoloa, Hawaii on July 22 and 23 2013. The TMT is an international project to build and operate a 30-m wide-field, alt-az Ritchey-Chretien 492 segment telescope on Mauna … Continue reading →

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Why you should write buggy software with as few features as possible (no, really!)

Posted on July 11, 2013 by astrocompute

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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Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics

Posted on April 29, 2013 by astrocompute

Shamir et al. (2o13) have recently posted a preprint on astro-ph of a paper that will appear in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Astronomy and Computing (the text is reproduced below). The paper makes the bold proposal that … Continue reading →

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The Keck Observatory Archive Is Expanding to Serve All Instruments

Posted on March 11, 2013 by astrocompute

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 →

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Unproceedings from the .Astronomy4 Conference, Heidelberg, July 2012

Posted on January 25, 2013 by astrocompute

Broadly speaking, the .Astronomy conference series aims to bring together astronomers, software engineers and educators who wish to explore how to use “Web 2.0” technologies to serve astronomy and astronomy outreach. The conferences are by design interactive and informal, with … Continue reading →

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Astrophysics Code Sharing? AAS Splinter Meeting, January 2013

Posted on January 18, 2013 by astrocompute

In the age of data intensive astronomy, software has come to be regarded as an instrument, and the question of when and whether code should be shared in astronomy (and indeed across all scientific disciplines) is a topic of debate … Continue reading →

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On-line Resources for Software Development Practices Aimed At Scientists

Posted on January 4, 2013 by astrocompute

A number of people have asked me if I know of on-line resources on the topic of software development practices, aimed at people who are scientists rather than expert software engineers. I am happy to say I know of several … Continue reading →

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The VAO Community Day In Baltimore, November 29 2012.

Posted on December 7, 2012 by astrocompute

The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is holding a series of community days at U.S. astronomical institutions. The community days feature two kinds of presentations: Members of the VAO describe the goals of the project and its services, provide demos and … Continue reading →

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RunMyCode.org: a platform for executing published computational results

Posted on November 30, 2012 by astrocompute

Much has been written about the need for scientists to share code used in the production of scientific papers. Sharing is now generally seen as an essential component of scientific reproducibility. Yet even if codes are shared, researchers may not … Continue reading →

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First Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science – Presentations On-line

Posted on October 26, 2012 by astrocompute

All the presentations from the Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices, held in Chicago as part of 8th International Conference on e-Science 2012, have been posted on-line at the workshop’s web site.  I posted my talk on “Adoption of Software by … Continue reading →

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