diff -r 6c860e686ba3 -r 7d3cb6c7a22f project/templates/talk/conf_schedule.html --- a/project/templates/talk/conf_schedule.html Fri Dec 10 20:30:06 2010 +0530 +++ b/project/templates/talk/conf_schedule.html Sat Dec 11 14:44:37 2010 +0530 @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ 15:15-15:35Puneeth ChagantiPictures, Songs and Python 15:35-15:55Hrishikesh DeshpandeWavelet based denoising of ECG using Python 15:55-16:10Tea-Break -16:10-16:40Jarrod MillmanInvited Talk +16:10-16:40Jarrod MillmanInvited TalkBuilding an open development community for neuroimaging analysis 16:40-17:00Ramakrishna Reddy YekullaBuilding and Packaging your Scientific Python Application For Linux Distributions 17:00-17:20Yogesh KarpateAutomatic Proteomic Finger Printing using Scipy 17:20-17:40Manjusha JoshiSAGE for Scientific computing and Education enhancement @@ -313,6 +313,40 @@ +

Building an open development community for neuroimaging analysis

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Jarrod Millman +

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Talk/Paper Abstract

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Programming is becoming increasingly important to scientific activity. As its +importance grows, the need for better software tools becomes more and more +central to scientific practice. However, many fields of science rely on +badly written, poorly documented, and insufficiently tested codebases. +Moreover, scientific software packages often implement only the approaches +and algorithms needed or promoted by the specific lab where the software +was written.

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In this talk, I will illustrate this situation by discussing some of the +weaknesses of the software ecosystem for neuroimaging analysis circa 2004. +I will then describe how several of my colleagues and I are attempting +to rectify this situation with a project called Neuroimaging in Python +(http://nipy.org). Specifically, I will discuss the approach we've taken +(e.g., using Python) and the lessons we've learned. +

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