From bennetsen at gmail.com Mon Feb 2 11:48:22 2009 From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:48:22 -0800 Subject: [opensource] Creative Commons Salon Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0902021148v699bc54fk4079f91639a8b8d@mail.gmail.com> Been to a few of these. They are usually interesting and good fun. Henrik > We're delighted to announce that the next CC Salon SF (Wednesday, > February 11, from 7-9pm) will be held at PariSoMa, > located at 1436 Howard Street, San Francisco (map and directions). > We extend our sincerest thanks to the generous folks at PariSoMa for > offering up their lovely space! We hope you'll join us in making our first > evening in these new surroundings a warm and lively one. Light refreshments > will be served. > We'll have the entire CC staff under > one roof, and the evening's program includes brief presentations from: > Mike Linksvayer, Vice President Eric Steuer, Creative Director Catharina Maracke, Director, Creative Commons International John Wilbanks, Vice President, Science Commons Ahrash Bissell, Executive Director, ccLearn Joi Ito, CEO Following the presentations, we'll open the floor to questions and discussion. Whether you've been a fan of CC from the start or you're new to the world of free culture, this salon is not to be missed! You can also check it out on Upcoming ! We rely on the generosity of our community to keep us afloat, so we'll be accepting donations for CC at the door. If you didn't get a chance to support us during our fundraising campaign, now is your chance. CC Salons are global events, and anyone can start one, no matter where you live. 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Things are hellishly busy in the library these days :-| cheers, james Irina Zaks wrote: > See you 2 pm, Old Union. > > irina > From irina.zaks at stanford.edu Wed Feb 4 12:14:30 2009 From: irina.zaks at stanford.edu (Irina Zaks) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:14:30 -0800 Subject: [opensource] First meet in February - today In-Reply-To: <4989F5AF.2040904@stanford.edu> References: <167452381.5911781233776716588.JavaMail.root@zm08.stanford.edu> <4989F5AF.2040904@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <4989F726.10009@stanford.edu> Maybe next week? I suspect that there will be no meet in Old Union on Feb 18 due to Drupal class on campus :) James Jacobs wrote: > Hi Irina, thanks for keeping the OSL banner going! I won't be able to > make it today unfortunately. Things are hellishly busy in the library > these days :-| > > cheers, > > james > > Irina Zaks wrote: > >> See you 2 pm, Old Union. >> >> irina >> >> > _______________________________________________ > opensource mailing list > opensource at lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > From jbickar at stanford.edu Wed Feb 4 13:30:43 2009 From: jbickar at stanford.edu (John Bickar) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:30:43 -0800 Subject: [opensource] First meet in February - today In-Reply-To: <4989F726.10009@stanford.edu> References: <167452381.5911781233776716588.JavaMail.root@zm08.stanford.edu> <4989F5AF.2040904@stanford.edu> <4989F726.10009@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <498A0903.1030801@stanford.edu> I won't be able to make it today, either :( JB Irina Zaks wrote: > Maybe next week? > > I suspect that there will be no meet in Old Union on Feb 18 due to > Drupal class on campus :) > > James Jacobs wrote: >> Hi Irina, thanks for keeping the OSL banner going! I won't be able to >> make it today unfortunately. Things are hellishly busy in the library >> these days :-| >> >> cheers, >> >> james >> >> Irina Zaks wrote: >> >>> See you 2 pm, Old Union. >>> >>> irina >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> opensource mailing list >> opensource at lists.stanford.edu >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource >> > > _______________________________________________ > opensource mailing list > opensource at lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource From bennetsen at gmail.com Sun Feb 8 09:31:15 2009 From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:31:15 -0800 Subject: [opensource] New Open-source Software Permits Faster Desktop Computer Simulations Of Molecular Motion Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0902080931j6a2a5330p6b517c2d298ca661@mail.gmail.com> > > In the past, researchers needed either supercomputers or large computer > clusters to run simulations. Or they had to be content to run only a tiny > fraction of the process on their desktop computers. But a new open-source > software package developed at Stanford University is making it possible to > do complex simulations of molecular motion on desktop computers at much > faster speeds than has been previously possible. > > "Simulations that used to take three years can now be completed in a few > days," said Vijay Pande, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford > University and principal investigator of the Open Molecular Mechanics(OpenMM ) project. "With this first release of OpenMM, we focused on small > molecular systems simulated and saw speedups of 100 times faster than > before." > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205093554.htm -- Henrik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsalsman at gmail.com Sun Feb 8 09:55:44 2009 From: jsalsman at gmail.com (James Salsman) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:55:44 -0800 Subject: [opensource] New Open-source Software Permits Faster Desktop Computer Simulations Of Molecular Motion In-Reply-To: <8bf04b5b0902080931j6a2a5330p6b517c2d298ca661@mail.gmail.com> References: <8bf04b5b0902080931j6a2a5330p6b517c2d298ca661@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I read about this on p. 3 of the current, Feb. 4, edition of the Stanford Report. The other URLs given for related information were http://folding.stanford.edu/ , http://simtk.org/home/openmm , and http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112750178/issue2 -- That third URL doesn't work for me at all, and I am not sure how the editors of the Stanford Report expect their readers to type such URLs -- but at least it is linked from http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/february4/molecmosr-020409.html The second URL is more interesting. It seems a little self-contradictory though. It says, "Downloads & Source Code [links omitted] This project also makes source code available, but only to project members.... A preview release of the code has been made available." I'm interested in this because I am looking for free replacement to Gaussian -- http://www.gaussian.com/ -- which costs $2,000. My hobby project is amateur astronomy collaboration using infrared spectroscopy to try to find the dark matter in the galaxy. I am collaborating on the internet with researchers from Caltech and NASA who are sending up some infrared space telescopes this year. But a lot of researchers, including those active in tomographic NMRI medical imaging, would benefit tremendously if the financial bar to molecular dynamics modeling was lowered. Sincerely, James Salsman On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Henrik Bennetsen wrote: >> In the past, researchers needed either supercomputers or large computer >> clusters to run simulations. Or they had to be content to run only a tiny >> fraction of the process on their desktop computers. But a new open-source >> software package developed at Stanford University is making it possible to >> do complex simulations of molecular motion on desktop computers at much >> faster speeds than has been previously possible. >> >> "Simulations that used to take three years can now be completed in a few >> days," said Vijay Pande, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford >> University and principal investigator of the Open Molecular Mechanics >> (OpenMM ) project. "With this first release of OpenMM, we focused on small >> molecular systems simulated and saw speedups of 100 times faster than >> before." > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205093554.htm > -- > Henrik > > _______________________________________________ > opensource mailing list > opensource at lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > From joyku at stanford.edu Mon Feb 9 11:29:13 2009 From: joyku at stanford.edu (Joy P. Ku) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:29:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [opensource] New Open-source Software Permits Faster Desktop Computer Simulations Of Molecular Motion Message-ID: <00e001c98aec$b0f6d090$12e471b0$@edu> I'm involved with the OpenMM project and just wanted to explain the message on the website. The source code for the current release *is* available. Our programmers are already working on the next release, though, and that code is only available for the project members. Best, Joy ______________________________________________________ Joy P. Ku, PhD Director of Dissemination Simbios, Stanford University (W) 650.736.8434 (F) 650.723.7461 Email: joyku at stanford.edu Website: http://simbios.stanford.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordanrm at stanford.edu Mon Feb 9 17:44:33 2009 From: jordanrm at stanford.edu (Jordan McCarthy) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:44:33 -0800 Subject: [opensource] Tommorow: Come hear Larry Lessig read, discuss and sign his latest book, Remix Message-ID: <4990DC01.8030203@stanford.edu> 2/10: Lawrence Lessig - Robert Crown Law Library Reference Lounge Reading Series Start: February 10, 2009 12:45pm End: February 10, 2009 2:00pm Location /Stanford Law School Library, Reference Lounge, 2nd Floor/ 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA, 94305 United States Description: Come hear Larry Lessig read, discuss and sign his latest book, Remix. Open to everyone. Home-baked sweets served! Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. Co-hosted by Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) (Taken from http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6027) From imran at osg.stanford.edu Sat Feb 21 19:20:25 2009 From: imran at osg.stanford.edu (Imran Akbar) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:20:25 -0800 Subject: [opensource] talk on splashtop Message-ID: <5f3bf4d20902211920x448c04daj622420ac90dca4f4@mail.gmail.com> Sergei Krupenin from Splashtop /DeviceVM will be speaking at the January meeting of the open source group on Thursday, February 26th, at 6:30 PM in Gates room 104. Splashtop is an "instant-on" system "which allows you to rapidly access the Web and key applications without the need to boot your main operating system" (see the demo video). Sergei is the senior director of marketing at DeviceVM and has degrees from Stanford and M.I.T. He will be giving a demo of the Splashtop system, talking about their open source initiatives and the story of how they started up the company. 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The idea is that > patents encourage new research, which then feeds into more research, and the > world is a better place. > > Not so, according to some rigorous new research (pdf) > into the effects of intellectual monopolies on science: > > Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent models emphasizing that, from an economic perspective, freedom is the granting of control rights to researchers. Within this framework, openness of upstream research does not simply encourage higher levels of downstream exploitation. It also raises the incentives for additional upstream research by encouraging the establishment of entirely new research directions. In other words, within academia, restrictions on scientific openness (such as those created by formal intellectual property (IP)) may limit the diversity and experimentation of basic research itself. We test this hypothesis by examining a ?natural experiment? in openness within the academic community: NIH agreements during the late 1990s that circumscribed IP restrictions for academics regarding certain genetically engineered mice. Using a sample of engineered mice that are linked to specific scientific papers (some affected by the NIH agreements and some not), we implement a differences-in-differences estimator to evaluate how the level and type of follow-on research using these mice changes after the NIH-induced increase in openness. We find a significant increase in the level of follow-on research. Moreover, this increase is driven by a substantial increase in the rate of exploration of more diverse research paths. Overall, our findings highlight a neglected cost of IP: reductions in the diversity of experimentation that follows from a single idea. This work basically shows that recent attempts to introduce intellectual monopolies into science in order to "promote innovation" have actually been counter-productive. our results offer direct evidence that scientific openness seems to be associated with the establishment of entirely new research lines: more specifically, increased openness leads to a significant increase in the diversity of the journals in which mouse-articles in the treatment group are cited, and, perhaps even more strikingly, a very significant increase in the number of previously unused ?keywords? describing the underlying research contributions of the citing articles. -- Henrik Bennetsen Associate Director Stanford Humanities Lab Stanford University Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall Building 160, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA bennetsen at gmail.com Cell: +1 415.418.4042 Fax: +1 650.725.0192 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: