Thanks to the confluence of Moore's Law, faster algorithms, scale-out storage and faster networks, big data is becoming pervasive. But how do we train more people to use it? Take a group of scientists ...

Neither an art nor a science, writing software is more akin to carpentry or watchmaking. We’re going to miss it.

The director of the Mozilla Science Lab discusses its course on scientific computing together with researchers who have taken the training. Since June 2013, the Mozilla Science Lab — an initiative of ...

Writing and executing computer code can feel like a black box, especially if you’re thrown into it as a life scientist without knowing any of the fundamentals of computer science. Luckily, Software ...