Interviews with leaders of the scientific open source software community Vol. 1
Interviews with leaders of the scientific open source software community Vol. 1
About the Book
Interviews with leaders of the scientific open source software community previously published in FLOSS4Science's blog (now offline - current domain owner has nothing to do with original blog!).
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................3
Gaël Varoquaux....................................................................................................................................4
SciRuby Team.......................................................................................................................................6
Lucian Langa, gnoduino lead developer..............................................................................................9
UniPro: Open Source Bioinformatics Business with UGENE...........................................................12
Interview: Izzat Sabbagh, leader of the Capaware 3D virtual world framework project...................15
PiCloud: Scientific open source computing in the cloud...................................................................19
Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather a meteorological data viewer................................................22
Alan W. Irwin, developer of Time Ephemerides................................................................................25
Making robots with open source: An interview with Steve Cousins, CEO Willow Garage..............28
Jesper Schmidt Hansen, author of GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide...................................................31
Interview: Eagle Genomics, open source solution provider for genome content management.........33
An interview with Equalis, a Scilab based business...........................................................................35
Matrix Algebra on GPU: An interview with MAGMA lead developers............................................38
FLOSS for Neuroscience: An interview with the NeuroDebian team...............................................42
Euler Math Toolbox: An interview with René Grothmann................................................................48
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