by Admin | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is excited to announce the newest additions to our fiscally sponsored projects: SciPy, a foundational building block for scientific and numerical computing in Python, and MathJax, a JavaScript library for displaying mathematics in web pages and making it...
by Admin | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Projects
UPDATE! 5 NumFOCUS Projects Accepted to Google Season of Docs We are thrilled to report that 5 NumFOCUS projects were accepted as part of the inaugural cohort of 50 Google Season of Docs (GSoD) organizations. Which is to say, fully 10% of all accepted GSoD...
by Admin | Feb 26, 2019 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Blosc, a very high performance meta-compressor specially designed for compressing binary data. Blosc is a high performance compression library written in C that uses the blocking...
by Admin | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to congratulate Julia co-creators Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah on winning the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. Julia’s co-creators set out to solve the two language problem by creating a new language...
by Admin | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce recipients of the third and final round of small development grants for 2018. Eligibility for these grants is limited to our Sponsored and Affiliated Projects. This year, NumFOCUS distributed $60,000 in small developments grants to help...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog, Projects
This is a guest post by Keighley Rockcliffe. Coronal Mass Ejections and the Skylab Mission On May 14th, 1973, the US’s first space station, dubbed Skylab, was launched into low-Earth orbit on the last Saturn V rocket launch. Onboard Skylab was a workshop meant for the...
