When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed—”We hold these these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.”… I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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…but this is cool: they’re working with manufacturers to reduce and simplify packaging. Good for the environment, good for consumers, good for Amazon’s image — it’d be great to see Loblaws and Dominion get into a greener-than-thou wrestling match over this too.
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Via Jordi Cabot, a link to a SourceForge project called FLOSSmole that collates tons of information about open source projects to support empirical software engineering research. Very cool.
Research
The Computing Community Consortium’s blog has a post today asking for help identifying game-changing research in computer science. I honestly can’t think of anything from software engineering that’s had the same kind of impact as the Web, search, cluster computing, or their other choices so far…
Research
While we’re running our survey of how scientists use computers, the folks at MATLAB are asking their users a few questions too. If you use any MathWorks products, and have a few minutes, they’d be grateful for your help.
Software Carpentry
The folks who run the Hacklab in Toronto’s Kensington Market have an open lab night every Tuesday. Everyone is welcome: come on out, see what’s what, and meet some very friendly people. And don’t worry about being a newbie—they all were once too.
Announcements
1731 people have completed our survey of how scientists use computers since it went online three weeks ago. That’s pretty cool, but I’d like to double the number (at least). If you consider yourself a working scientist, and haven’t taken the survey yet, please take a moment and do so. If you aren’t a scientist, but know some, please pass on the link:
http://softwareresearch.ca/seg/SCS/scientific-computing-survey.html
Thanks!
Software Carpentry
http://www.cccblog.org/2008/10/31/cra-and-ccc-promote-research-highlight-of-the-week/
…the CRA and CCC web sites are now providing a weekly feature called “Computing Research Highlight of the Week”. If you are doing computing research, you are invited to submit your own work for possible inclusion in this weekly feature.
These highlights are designed to provide easily digestible, compelling nuggets of computing research work. Members of Congress, the Administration, and funding agency managers and directors are some of the main audiences for these web pages. We believe the highlights should also prove to be useful for the entire research community.
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