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 | Open-source Math |
 Quoted from the recently release AMS opinion
"Mathematical software has greatly contributed to mathematical research, enabling exciting advances in mathematics and providing extensive data for conjectures. Perhaps three of the most well-known applications of computation to mathematical research are the resolution of the four-color conjecture by Appel and Haken in 1976 (though it is now reproven with less need for computer verification by N. Robertson, D. P. Sanders, P. D. Seymour and R. Thomas), Thomas Hales’s proof of Kepler’s conjecture, and the formulation of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, which grew out of extensive numerical computation.
Open source software, such as TEX, Mozilla Firefox, and Linux has had a profound effect on computing during the last decade, and we hope that open source mathematical software will have a similar positive impact on mathematics."
Read the full Opinion at:
http://www.ams.org/notices/200710/tx071001279p.pdf
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Posted by aylward on Sunday, November 18 @ 14:06:04 EST (651 reads)
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| NIH May Require Use of Open-Access Journals |
"Congress is expected to vote this week on a bill requiring investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to publish research papers only in journals that are made freely available within one year of publication. Until now, repeated efforts to legislate such a mandate have failed under pressure from the well-heeled journal publishing industry and some nonprofit scientific societies whose educational activities are supported by the profits from journals that they publish. Scientists assert that open access will speed innovation by making it easier for them to share and build on each other's findings. The measure is contained in a spending bill that boosts the biomedical agency's effective budget by 3.1%, to $29.8 billion in 2008. The open-access requirement in the bill would apply only during fiscal year 2008; it would need to be renewed in yearly spending bills in the future."
-- Posted on http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/2318208
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Posted by aylward on Tuesday, November 13 @ 09:59:51 EST (551 reads)
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| Open-source Warfare |
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5668
In a rather "interesting" comparison, the author of this paper in IEEE Spectrum, speculates that the tactics used by insurgents in Iraq are similar to the ones used by the Open Source movement, and that the difficulties that the coalition forces are facing are similar to the challenges that monolithic companies like Microsoft are encountering for competing with a more creative and flexible opponent.
On the bright side, the author concludes the paper stating that adopting an "Open Source"-approach to warfare (such as Agile development mentality) may be an appropriate response.
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Posted by aylward on Tuesday, November 13 @ 09:59:13 EST (540 reads)
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| Luis Ibanez`s talk @ MICCAI Open-Source Workshop is Online |
 Title: "Principles and Practices of Scientific Originology"
This presentation is a satire of the current obsession with intellectual property, innovation and originality that plagues the field of medical image analysis.
The presentation makes the point that most Journals and Conferences focus on Originality and despise Reproducibility and Verification, demonstrating great disrespect for the essential elements of the scientific method. The practice of "peer-review" is offered in most cases as an insufficient substitute for the actual verification of reproducibility.
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Posted by aylward on Tuesday, November 13 @ 09:58:46 EST (537 reads)
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