This time we have for you an interview with Heino Prinz, a biochemist and author of the book Numerical Methods for the Life Scientist: Binding and Enzyme Kinetics Calculated with GNU Octave and MATLAB. Heino tells us about himself, how the book came to be and who will benefit from it. Enjoy the interview and check out the book!
Read more »GNU Octave for the Life Scientist: An Interview with biochemist and author Heino Prinz
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The GNU Scientific Library: An interview with Mark Galassi
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This is an interview with Mark Galassi, one of the core developers of the highly revered GSL (GNU Scientific Library) project. Mark took out time of his very busy schedule to answer our questions and we are very grateful for that. Enjoy!
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Computer Aided Design the FLOSS way: An Interview with Franz Reiter, lead developer of gCAD3D
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Today we share with you an interview with gCAD3D lead developer Franz Reiter. gCAD3D is an interactive Computer Aided Design tool that can be used by engineers for prototyping models in three dimensions. Enjoy the interview!
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A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python, an interview with author Hans Petter Langtangen
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We share with you and interview with scientist, professor and author Hans Petter Langtangen about his well known book A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python. We delve into the story behind the book, future plans and, as always, the importance of free/libre software in science.
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Analysis of Questionnaire Data with R, an interview with author Bruno Falissard
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Today we share with you an interview with Bruno Falissard author of the book Analysis of Questionnaire Data with R. Bruno is a psychiatrist with other books in his portfolio. This is his first English and R related book. Enjoy the interview!
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Interview with Ivan Idris author of NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide
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Today’s interview is with Ivan Idris, author of NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide a book for developers or scientists with a little Python experience and wanting to test NumPy’s capabilities. We talk about the book, how it came to be and the experience writing it. Enjoy!
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Interview: Computational astrophysics with the yt project
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This time we have for you an interview with Britton Smith and Matthew Turk, lead developers of the yt Project, a toolkit that offers a common language for developing astrophysical simulations and analysis tools. Astronomy professionals and amateurs will find this interview fascinating. Enjoy!
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Doing geospatial business with FLOSS: An Interview with CartoDB
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This week we have for you an interview with Simon Tokumine and Javier de la Torre from CartoDB, an open source geospatial cloud database with a business model. Enjoy the interview!
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Euler Math Toolbox: An interview with René Grothmann
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Today we share with you an interview with René Grothmann, the developer of the Euler Math Toolbox a software environment for interactive numerical computations. Euler is similar to FreeMat or MatLab, but it has its own take on how to do things. One interesting feature is that it creates 3D stereograms that require 3D glasses.
Read more »FLOSS for Neuroscience: An interview with the NeuroDebian team
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This time we bring you an interview with Michael Hanke and Yaroslav O. Halchenko, leaders of the NeuroDebian project. NeuroDebian is a turnkey platform (using Debian as its foundation) that offers a huge bundle of FLOSS software for neuroscientists. Enjoy the interview!
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FLOSS for Science Books October 2011
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A list of FLOSS for science related books released during the month of October 2011.
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Matrix Algebra on GPU: An interview with MAGMA lead developers
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In this Floss4Science interview we bring you the leaders of the MAGMA (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures) project: Jack Dongarra and Stanimire (Stan) Tomov. MAGMA is a set of linear algebra libraries with a strong relationship to the venerable LAPACK and ScaLAPACK libraries.
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Interview: Eagle Genomics, open source solution provider for genome content management
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This week we have an interview with Richard Holland, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Eagle Genomics a bioinformatics company that leverages scientific open source software to support its business model. Enjoy the interview!
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Making robots with open source: An interview with Steve Cousins, CEO Willow Garage
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This week’s FLOSS4Science interview is with Steve Cousins, President and CEO of Willow Garage, creators of the PR2 robot and the TurtleBot, both based on the open source ROS (Robot Operating System) platform. Roboticists, enjoy the interview!
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Interview: Alan W. Irwin, developer of Time Ephemerides
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This week we interviewed Alan Irwin, the current developer of the Time Ephemerides project, a software and data bundle used to make time corrections in astronomical observations from the Earth’s view point. This is hardcore Astronomy friends! Enjoy the interview!
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