Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

GFortran

I just realized that I don’t have any links in our Programming Languages section, so I’ve added a link to GFortran, the gcc front-end for Fortran 95 (which is not the same as g95). I haven’t yet tried to compile … Continue reading

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GFortran

Gfortran is the name of the GNU Fortran 95 project, developing a free Fortran 95 compiler for GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. The gfortran development effort uses an open development environment in order to attract a larger team of developers … Continue reading

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SimTK.org

I’m not really sure what SimTK.org is all about yet, but they do look like they have some interesting things in the works. Of particular interest to me is the Molecular Dynamics Language and the Simbody multibody dynamics toolset. Check … Continue reading

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Found over coffee: A great article on the Dover trial

It has been a slow week in South Bend, and this afternoon over lunch at Lula’s, I came across a fantastic article on the Dover School Board trial that was in the December 5th edition of the New Yorker. It … Continue reading

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Well, that pretty much says it all

From MSNBC.com, here’s the headline: Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’. And here’s an excerpt from the decision: To be sure, Darwin’s theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every … Continue reading

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Two new forum questions

Over in the OpenScience Forums there are two threads which ask some good questions: gelinp asks if there are any open source graphics programs that allow the user to draw curves on a 2-d canvas and then place tangents and … Continue reading

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Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?

Greg Wilson has written a great article in American Scientist on the shocking absence of modern software development practices from groups that do science using computers. I know exactly what Greg is talking about. Some of the groups I’ve worked … Continue reading

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Chemicals & Exotic Metals

My new favorite site of the day: United Nuclear’s Chemicals & Exotic Metals which appears to be a page for people doing experiments with home-brewed fireworks, magnetic levitation, and neutron activation experiments. On a single page, they have D2O, Beryllium … Continue reading

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Adventures in Synthetic Biology

Nature ran a comic as Nature 438, pp 449-453 (2005). You can read about it here and see the comic here. The comic was drawn by Chuck Wadey and was written by Drew Endy and Isodora Deese from the MIT … Continue reading

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YACAS

We have a new link today in our Abstract Algebra section for YACAS, which stands for “yet another computer algebra system”. YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. … Continue reading

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