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AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Illustration: Shannon Love Shannon Love at Chicago Boyz has written a superlative examination of just how bad "the most important computer programs in the world" at Hadly CRU actually are in Scientists Are Not Software Engineers. While the human element of deception, deletion, and good old fashion "dumbth" are on display in the hacked emails, Love points out No, the real shocking...
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Space Ref (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
While the Kepler spacecraft continues in its orbit, and collecting science data, the Kepler team at the Ames Research Center continues its work on the science data processing pipeline software.
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SharpBrains (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Quick reminder of a great event tomorrow evening in Palo Alto, organized by MIT Northern California and SmartSilvers. Description: With the success of Nintendo’s Brain Age, Posit Science and dozens of new software programs and games that promise "brain fitness", the real question is: "Are we experiencing a fad, or an emerging new consumer market?" [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
A basic prototype of a robotic caregiver for the elderly might be a mere three years away, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago say. Making at robot caregiver that can understand gestures and bring objects is both possible and important, says lead researcher Milos Zefran, UIC associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Zefran's group is working on a $989,000 three-year...
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Next Generation Science (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Liveblogging Science 2.0 | Serendipity The Science 2.0 Conference: What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They Work [link] was held in Toronto on July 26th. Steve Easterbrook blogged the conference in real time. Science 2.0: Choosing Infrastructure and Testing Tools for Scientific Software Projects | Global Nerdy Joey deVilla's notes [...]
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newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
June 16, 2009 TechRepublic Photo Galleries Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online | Manage my newsletters Welcome: newsletter Update my profile | Unsubscribe from this mail Blogs | Photos | Downloads | Forums iPhone 3G S and OS 3.0 photos Sponsored How much do your peers earn? Find out on activeTechPros if you're an IT professional . * * * * * * * * Introducing activeBizPros: a salary resource for...
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Open Science (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Cheng Soon Ong just emailed me about mloss.org, a community creating a comprehensive open source machine learning environment. Mloss.org is essentially a community portal with lots of detailed information about each of the listed projects. One of the more interesting features of their site is that they’ve tied specific software to [...]
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Open Science (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Go read this wonderful manifesto over at arXiv: Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto by Weiner et al. The authors talk about some of the barriers to astronimical software development that are true in all scientific fields. The chief barrier they see is that there are no incentives (and are [...]
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The Third Bit (Free subscription) | 03/16/2009
The Department of Computer Science is holding its Research in Action showcase on March 24, 2009. Presentations are listed below, with full descriptions here. Look forward to seeing lots of you there! Friend Forecaster: Cell Phone Software Aiding Memory for Names Interactive Performance Control: A New Puppetry of Real and Virtual Robots Using Language to Learn [...]
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Everything CUSEC (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
This was originally posted at http://www.geekflex.net/2009/03/11/cusec-retrospective-part-2-the-timing/ A lot of people complain about the fact that CUSEC is held on the second or third week of January. It’s cold in Montreal in January. We’ve had years where it’s been -40 degrees with the wind chill 1, and some people find this tough to take. There are many [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. World Microplate Instrumentation & Supplies Market
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P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Since 2006, Science Blogging has begun to transform scientific publishing, emerging alongside the Open Access model as a phenomenon that even the “glamour journals” must now take seriously. Indeed, Nature publishing group established the Nature Network social software platform (blogging/forums) for scientists in response to the surge in science blogging activity. http://network.nature.com/...
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Nuke's news & views (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Scientists in the United States have invented a battery that can charge in seconds, promising a revolution in power storage that could also help green cars and renewable energy. The advance allows lithium-ion batteries, the standard variety used in consumer electronics and cells for electric or hybrid vehicles, both to charge and discharge stored energy more [...]
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The Third Bit (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
415 days to go; here’s an update my last “things I’d like to accomplish” post: Help Samira, Jeremy, and Carolyn finish their Master’s theses: done. Get Aran, Alecia, Alicia, Zachary, Jason, and Rory through theirs: some progress. Alecia, Alicia, and Rory have topics; Aran and Jason are converging (I hope); Zak’s reading papers with Prof. Azadeh [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
DULUTH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Curriculum Advantage™ Inc. today announces that its flagship product, Classworks™, has been named a 2009 CODiE Awards finalist in two categories. Classworks comprehensive K-12
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catop | 11/13/2007
Kids always enjoy playing with toys. Here are some information about Barbie toys, Little Tikes toys as well as educational toys. A continuacion... Toys
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