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Date Location Forum Title December 2015 Montainview, CA Googleplex Open Source on a Universal Scale ( key, 803 MB), ( pdf, 69 MB) December 2015 Moffett Field, California NASA Ames Fundamental (?), Fragmenting, Filaments, and Fibers ( key, 1 GB), ( pdf, 61...

An academic reality show

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'PredictionX' brings together faculty from across the University to discuss the human need to know the future. Read More: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/11/an-academic-reality-show/

Astronomy Professor Goodman Named Scientist of the Year

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Alyssa A. Goodman, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy and Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, has been selected the 2015 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation . Read More: Astronomy Professor Goodman Named...

Seamless linkages (between data archives) for visualization and analysis (@AAS 2024)

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An early invited presentation of LIVE Environments. The focus was on the origins of LIVE Astro, and on how it can be used to connect "data, language, and pictures," in line with the mission layed out by Goodman et al. in "The Paper of the Future" in 2015...

A better sense of place: Astronomer to speak on the race for longitude

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Imagine trying to find your way across open water with no landmarks and no point of reference. That was the challenge that faced European navigators who launched the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, leaving behind known ports and coastlines to ply...

An academic reality show: 'PredictionX' brings together faculty from across the University to discuss the human need to know the future

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In a Science Center lecture hall at Harvard, anthropologist Rowan Flad heats a hot metal poker and touches it to a goat scapula. The ancient Chinese, he explains, used a ritual similar to this as a means of divination. As early as 4000 B.C., they...

Talk: Seamless linkages (between data archives) for visualization and analysis (@AAS 2024)

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Origins of LIVE Astro, and on how it can be used to connect "data, language, and pictures."

Freshman Seminar 27j - Prediction: From Ancient Omens to Modern Computer Simulations

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Part of what makes us human is our desire to learn our own future. Throughout recorded history, people have sought ever-more-powerful methods of Prediction. In ancient times, sheep were sacrificed and priests read signs from the gods in their entrails...

Astronomers Finds “Spine” Along Spiral Arms of the Milky Way

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Astronomers have found what may be considered a piece of a galactic skeleton; a dark structure of gas and dust that might provide a backbone on which one of the spiral arms extend from the central bar of the Milky Way galaxy. Read More: https://www...

What is WorldWide Telescope and why should researchers care?

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227th AAS Meeting

Abstract: As of 2015, about 20 million people have downloaded the computer program called "WorldWide Telescope," and even more have accessed it via the web, at http://worldwidetelescope.org. But, the vast majority of these millions are...

The Skeleton of the Milky Way

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Prospects for Chemically Tagging Stars in the Galaxy

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