Cameron Laird's personal notes on open source for science

• open-source languages in school courses
• open-source products in the laboratory
• software development in the academic world
• intellectual propriety

Open-source languages in school courses

Open-source products in the laboratory

Yorick

Maxima aims at Mathematica, descends from Macsyma

"Open source in the lab"

"Open source satellite control"

biopython, bioperl, biojava, scipy (accomodates Fortran and C++), Octave, Scilab, R, ...

"Fortran, at home on Linux"

Numerical Python. Note such related resources as enthought, Eric Jones' scipy presentation, ...

clustering ...

Lush

Bil Kleb's paper, "paperComputational Simulations and the Scientific Method" addresses component tests, model management, and publication of test fixtures. "Extreme Programming in a Research Environment" does some of the same.