Recently I’ve stumbled upon the terms citizen science and citizen cyberscience. The last term was apparently invented by Shuttleworth Fellow Francois Grey as a label for BOINC-based distributed computing projects like seti@home, folding@home and his own lhc@home. Grey is also behind the Citizen Cyberscience Centre in Geneva – on the web pages of which there’s more information to be … Read the rest
As exemplified on the pictures above (from the photo gallery of one of the students), CERN School of Computing includes a good deal of extracurricular activities. Which probably goes a long way in explaining the good and humorous atmosphere in the classroom.
Having spent a lot of energy preparing the exercise with the great CSC team, it really was great … Read the rest
In this post I’ll try to explain the vision behind a software suite I wrote at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2009-11.
The ideas for the software arose from my dual involvement with the high energy physics and the e-science groups. Some of the code originated in previous projects, including distributed computing efforts of the ATLAS experiment at … Read the rest
Works for cello & piano by Leopold van der Pals
Came across this CD by chance. The soloist – living here on Østerbro, is the grandson of the composer .
Post-romantic, austerity, suspense and longing. Apparently it appeals to the younger generations 
Pablo (and tia Chata) enjoying the music:
To see the video → … Read the rest