[Bessig] BESSIG: Testing scientific code, Wed 9/18, 4:00 PM, Outlook

[Mattmann, Chris A (398J)]

Sounds awesome guys wish I could be there!

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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: chris.a.mattmann at nasa.gov
WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Wilson <anne.wilson at lasp.colorado.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:38 PM
To: "bessig at lists.esipfed.org" <bessig at lists.esipfed.org>, Ian Truslove
<ian.truslove at nsidc.org>, Erik Jasiak <erik.jasiak at nsidc.org>
Subject: [Bessig] BESSIG: Testing scientific code, Wed 9/18, 4:00 PM,
Outlook

>Hi BESSIG,
>
>I hope this finds you all safe and dry on this watery day.
>
>Our September meeting is next Wednesday.   Hopefully life will be fairly
>normal by then.   Please join us at the Outlook for:
>
>"Strategies, motivations, and influencing adoption of testing for
>scientific code"
>
>by Ian Truslove, Erik Jasiak, (NSIDC)
>
>Computation and programming are increasingly inescapable in modern Earth
>Sciences, but scientists and researchers receive little or no formal
>software engineering or programming training.  At the same time,
>research into the reproducibility of other academic papers exposing
>disappointingly low rates of repeatability and high-profile retractions
>due to computational or data errors increase the onus on researchers to
>write repeatable, reliable, even reusable programs; in other words,
>"write better code".
>
>The complete abstract and other information is at the web site:
>http://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/BESSIG/2013/09/12/BESSIG+Meeting+W
>ed%2C+Sep+18%2C+4+-+6+PM
>
>Hope to see you there!
>
>Anne
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