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Mathematics and computation

Mathematics and computation

Standing on the shoulders of programmers: the power of free and open-source software

06 Sep 2021
Taken from the September 2021 issue of Physics World.

Free and open-source software is growing to be a powerful tool in academic research, helping scientists to collaborate better and work smarter. Achintya Rao investigates how such software is being used in physics research, and its role in the wider open-science movement

the original black hole image (left) and open code (right) from the EHT Collaboration
(Courtesy: Achintya Rao, using the original black hole image (left) and open code (right) from the EHT Collaboration)
Twenty-three thousand. According to computer scientist Katie Bouman, that is how many people were in

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Achintya Rao is a freelance science communicator and writer, and is pursuing a PhD in science communication from the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, achintyarao.in, e-mail achintya@achintyarao.in
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