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Category Archives: technology
Microsoft buys GitHub?
Some years ago, it was announced that Microsoft had done a deal with Donald Knuth and the American Mathematical Society and had bought the rights to TeX. It was slightly worrying until you noticed that the announcement was dated 1 … Continue reading
Publication lists and repositories
How many publications do I have? Actually, I don’t care too much about that; but if I were younger and applying for promotion, it would actually matter. But suppose you wanted to answer the question, or indeed to get copies … Continue reading
Posted in publishing, technology
Tagged arXiv, DBLP, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, ORCiD, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH
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Symmetries in light
Last night was the opening in St Andrews of an exhibition Symmetries in Light at the Byre Theatre. The exhibition, which ran in Edinburgh during Science Week there, is in St Andrews on four days starting today; so, if you … Continue reading
Posted in history, technology
Tagged David Brewster, kaleidoscopes, polarisation, Shinichi Ohkuma
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Data science and statistics
Words change their meanings. Once “biometrics” referred to the use of statistics in studying biological systems such as agriculture (as opposed to, say, “technometrics”): now only one item on the Google top ten refers to the International Biometric Society, so … Continue reading
A use for an iPad
I haven’t really learned to love my iPad, though I have to admit that it can be used as an encyclopaedia when doing crosswords of the more learned variety. But it did prove its worth during the week. At a … Continue reading
St Andrews 600
Last Tuesday (10 September 2013), Diamond Geezer gave a list of anniversaries which fall this year. One he missed was the 600th anniversary of the University of St Andrews. Over the last couple of days, I have been at the … Continue reading
Posted in history, teaching, technology
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Ubuntu upgrade
My Meenee laptop, running Ubuntu, has become a necessity for me. For the entire month of April, it was the only computing resource I had. So I got a bit of a shock recently when it started nagging me to … Continue reading
World Digital Mathematical Library
Many things that have happened recently in mathematical publishing — chiefly the lemming-like rush for gold open access — have seemed rather negative to me. You are probably tired of my carping. So it is nice to report something positive … Continue reading
The future of universities
Film was one of the great inventions of the nineteenth century. For a century and a half, it was developed and improved, innovations such as colour and moving pictures were made, and photographers used it in artistic and creative ways. … Continue reading