From lachlan.cranswick at nrc.gc.ca Tue Nov 24 18:17:10 2009 From: lachlan.cranswick at nrc.gc.ca (Cranswick, Lachlan - NRC) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:17:10 -0500 Subject: IUCr CTeach: Age Concern edition of the Computing Commission and Teaching Commission newsletter In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.20060911230954.00a5b5d4@mail.magma.ca> Message-ID: Hi All, As arranged with Paola, a joint Computing Commission / Teaching Commission newsletter has been produced on the topic of "Age Concern" and is now on the IUCr website. Of teaching commission relevance is: - Teaching material of Isabella L. Karle, as she presented at the 1978 Erice School on Direct Methods for Solving Crystal Structures - A reprint of the The Analytical Theory of Point Systems (1923) by J. D. Bernal (1901-1971) - Historical group photographs from some of the Crystallographic Computing and Teaching Schools of the 1970's. The announcement text explaining the edition is below. Regards, Lachlan The Computing Commission and Teaching Commission has produced a joint November 2009 newsletter on the theme of "Age Concern", which deals with issue concerning "the slow march towards retirement of the major generation of crystallographic programmers", as further explained by David Watkin within the newsletter. http://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/crystallographic-computing/newsletters/10 or via http://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/crystallographic-teaching/newsletters/3 --------------------------- This issue's articles include : - the latest background and information from the UK based EPSRC funded Age Concern Project. - history and science within the Caltech based CRYRM single crystal suite; DIMS - Direct methods In Multidimensional Space software; Crunch 1.5 Direct Methods Software; the Glasgow based GX single crystal suite; the Italian based CAOS structure refinement software; Ton Spek's Platon; and a list of programs archived at Armel Le Bail's Crystallography Source Code Museum. - experience in conversion of large crystallographic Fortran-77 to C++; as well as the place of the Quick and Dirty Crystallographic Computer Program - Historical group photographs from some of the Crystallographic Computing and Teaching Schools of the 1970's. - Archived manuals and source code from the above mentioned software. - Teaching material of Isabella L. Karle, as she presented at the 1978 Erice School on Direct Methods for Solving Crystal Structures - A reprint of the The Analytical Theory of Point Systems (1923) by J. D. Bernal (1901-1971) Further Computing Commission newsletters are intended on theme of Age Concern : capturing the history and the crystallographic science behind past and present Small Molecule, Powder Diffraction, Protein and other crystallographic software. Submissions on this topic are welcome and encouraged. - Lachlan Cranswick ( lachlan.cranswick at nrc.gc.ca ) --------------------------------------------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council Canada Building 459, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River ON, Canada, K0J 1J0 Centre canadien de faisceaux de neutrons, Conseil national de recherches Canada ?difice 459, Laboratoires de Chalk River, Chalk River (ON), Canada, K0J 1J0 (613) 584-8811 ext 43719 ; C2: ext 43039 facsimile / t?l?copieur : (613) 584-4040 E-mail: lachlan.cranswick at nrc.gc.ca / courriel: lachlan.cranswick at cnrc.gc.ca http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cnbc/ http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ccfn/ Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada (please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk Email being received. If you don't get an expected reply to any messages, please try again.) (Essayez d'utiliser des titres explicites - sans quoi vos messages pourraient aboutir dans un dossier de rebuts, du fait de la quantit? tr?s importante de pourriels re?ue. Si vous n'obtenez pas la r?ponse attendue, merci de bien vouloir renvoyer un message.) CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED INFORMATION NOTICE This e-mail, and any attachments, may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright, or exempt from disclosure. Any unauthorized review, disclosure, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or reliance on this information may be unlawful and is strictly prohibited. AVIS D'INFORMATION CONFIDENTIELLE ET PRIVIL?GI?E Le pr?sent courriel, et toute pi?ce jointe, peut contenir de l'information qui est confidentielle, r?gie par les droits d'auteur, ou interdite de divulgation. Tout examen, divulgation, retransmission, diffusion ou autres utilisations non autoris?es de l'information ou d?pendance non autoris?e envers celle-ci peut ?tre ill?gale et est strictement interdite.