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 School 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 M. D. Cranswick Contact outside working hours / Coordonnees en dehors des heures de travail: NEW E-mail / courriel: lachlanc *at* magma.ca Home Tel: (613) 584-4226 ; Cell/mobile: (613) 401-6254 WWW: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/ P.O. Box 2057, Deep River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1P0 (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 quantite tres importante de pourriels recue. Si vous n'obtenez pas la reponse attendue, merci de bien vouloir renvoyer un message.)
