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Dstl shares new open-source framework initiative

Publishing date: 2019-05-23 Published on: GOV.UK summary: A new open-source software framework designed by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is now available to help improve tracking technology. Leading the project across the 5-eyes nations of UK, USA, Australia, NZ and Canada, Dstl has made the project available to anyone wanting to upload and test their tracking algorithms.

Essential Open Source Software for Science

Publishing date: 2019-05-23 Published on: Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative summary: Chan Zuckerberg Foundation design a new program to support open source software essential to modern scientific research. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research.

3D-printable portable open-source platform for low-cost lens-less holographic cellular imaging

Publishing date: 2019-05-02 Published on: arXiv summary: None authors: Stephan Amann, Max von Witzleben, Stefan Breuer link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.04497.pdf Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

The Shift From Open Source To Commercial Data Analytics Is Placing Cost Over Accuracy

Publishing date: 2019-04-11 Published on: Forbes summary: The modern era of data science was once built upon an open and transparent world of open source software and open data, wielded by statistically literate technical experts who deeply understood both the tools and data they were using.

The Turing Way

Publishing date: 2019-04-11 Published on: The Turing Way summary: The Turing Way is a lightly opinionated guide to reproducible data science. The goal of The Turing Way is to provide all the information that researchers need at the start of their projects to ensure that they are easy to reproduce at the end.

Open Science Means Open Source--Or, at Least, It Should

Publishing date: 2019-02-27 Published on: Linux Journal summary: When did open source begin? In February 1998, when the term was coined by Christine Peterson? Or in 1989, when Richard Stallman drew up the “subroutinized” GNU GPL?

Expanding Equitable Access to Experimental Research and STEM Education by Supporting Open Source Hardware Development

Publishing date: 2019-02-01 Published on: Journal of Open HW summary: Is there an opportunity to radically increase access to scientific instrumentation, while improving the quality and diversity of research tools by harnessing the power of collaborative innovation in the development of FOSH (free and open source hardware)?

Open sourcing bioinstruments

Publishing date: 2019-02-01 Published on: Bits of DNA summary: While open sourcing has become de rigueur in genomics dry labs, wet labs remain beholden to commercial instrument providers that rarely open source hardware or software, and impose draconian restrictions on instrument use and modification.

Julia language co-creators win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

Publishing date: 2019-01-17 Published on: MIT News summary: Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language are the recipients of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. The prize will be awarded to Bezanson, Karpinski, and Shah “for the creation of Julia, an innovative environment for the creation of high-performance tools that enable the analysis and solution of computational science problems.

Feeling generous? Open source software community gives shelter to code

Publishing date: 2018-12-10 Published on: JAXENTER summary: Are you looking for a new project to work on? Do you have some code that you’d like to donate? In this piece, Sarah Schlothauer presents a shortlist of free and open source communities dedicated to the world of FOSS.