By Eugene Barsky on December 24, 2008
We would like to wish you happy holidays! We are looking forward to work with many of you next year! Enjoy the snow ** Photo by velkr0
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By Kevin Lindstrom on December 12, 2008
Interested in what’s going on at Google? There are a number of ways of doing this. Going to Google Labs will show you some of their cool new technologies. What else is going on at Google? Searching the ACM Digital Library for Google in the Affiliations field retrieves 359 papers. The most recent being Programming [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on December 5, 2008
Impact factors, Journal Citation Reports, the Science Citation Index and its online version the Web of Science are all statistical measures of the importance of journals and of the researchers who publish in them. There are in fact journals that specialize in bibliometrics – the journal Scientometrics is one such example. Dr. Jorge Hirsch, a [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on November 5, 2008
Now after the election, it would be interesting to see whether Senator Obama will perform on the science and technology issues his campaign has promised. Here is Obama’s platform on STM issues, accumulated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science – http://election2008.aaas.org/comparisons/obama.shtml Do you notice something of a particular interest to you? ** [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on October 24, 2008
TRIUMF and UBC’s Department of Physics and Astronomy are proud to present the 2008-09 Saturday morning lecture series on Quantum Physics and Chemistry. We especially welcome guest speakers from the UBC Chemistry Department and from Simon Fraser University to this year’s program. This lecture series will introduce the audience to the essential facts about the [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on October 15, 2008
A technology report (PDF) by a Harvard University student shows that of all the digital tools that professors use, Harvard students find most useful online course material and syllabi. The report said students want courses to have a Web site that contains readings, notes and other content so they can be accessed easily during the [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on October 8, 2008
Released in June 2008 by Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI), this list shows the top ten nations ranked according to output of published journal articles in 22 main fields of science (including general social sciences), based on papers indexed by Thomson Reuters (excluding books, book chapters, and articles published in non-Thomson Reuters-indexed journals) between January 1998 [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on October 6, 2008
The 262 new submissions received between Wednesday 1 Oct and Thursday 2 Oct, announced Friday 3 Oct 2008, brought the total number of articles on arXiv past 500,000 — all openly accessible. There are also more than 200,000 old versions of articles which record all public revisions since 1997. If the linear increase in submission [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on September 23, 2008
A great little article about some wotk done by Bruce Dunham and his colleagues is featured in UBC Reports last week – “Prof Improves Probability of Learning Stats” Great to know that Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) is involved! ** Photo by Martin Dee
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By Kevin Lindstrom on September 12, 2008
We’ve got ebooks on almost any topic under the sun and pdf’s are a lot lighter to carry than paper. You want books on how to write code in Python or how to fix your new laptop running Microsoft Vista? Have a look at the Books 24X7 IT Collection. Trying find some good stuff on [...]
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