Marten Mickos recently wrote a guest post on GigaOM titled: “For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software.” Mickos raised some very good poi… more →
Astronomy Computing Todaywrote 1 day ago: Marten Mickos recently wrote a guest post on GigaOM titled: “For developers, the cloud means h … more →
wrote 1 day ago: CERN is known as the current world epicenter of particle physics, the home of the Large Hadron Colli … more →
wrote 5 days ago: Picking a database these days can be bewildering, and at the same time it can be a crucial business … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: ©CERN Photo: Brice Maximilien / Laurent Egli — at CERN. WE CAME, WE SAW, WE CERNED We were thrilled … more →
wrote 1 month ago: People who work in laboratories take a lot of things for granted. When they come into work in the mo … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The original Human Genome Project needed 13 years, hundreds of scientists and billions of dollars to … more →
wrote 1 month ago: My colleague Peter Plavchan and I wrote this lead article for the April 3 edition of International … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Have you ever wondered just who it is who runs the internet? Well, I know I have, and this graphic r … more →
wrote 1 month ago: THE ILLINOIS SUPERCOMPUTER NEIGHBORHOOD GROWS On Thursday, the National Center for Supercomputing Ap … more →
wrote 2 months ago: My friend and colleague Kirk Borne, of George Mason University, is a specialist in the modern field … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Ian Foster speaking at the RDMI workshop, March 13, 2013. Photo by Rick Reinhard. Big science projec … more →
wrote 2 months ago: This year sees the W.M. Keck Observatory celebrating its 20th birthday, and the observatory is marki … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Since I first wrote about it in in July 2011, the Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL) has grown fro … more →
wrote 2 months ago: In a powerful demonstration of the value of computation to modern astronomy, McKinney et al. (2013) … more →
wrote 3 months ago: NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program, with the ove … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Last week, I wrote a post about Michelle Borkin’s presentation on Astronomical Medicine and Be … more →
wrote 3 months ago: This is the title of a presentation by Michelle Borkin (Harvard University), given on February 5, 20 … more →
wrote 3 months ago: This week’s post is about innovative work led by Carola I. Ellinger and Sangwook Park (Univers … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Broadly speaking, the .Astronomy conference series aims to bring together astronomers, software engi … more →