[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-25 Thread dk
I know you're in a rush, and I am not familiar with the evaluation process, but you might want to tone down the language a bit. Understatement can be stronger than overstatement. And numbers speak for themselves. For example, on page 3 we read that Pynac is "extremely fast". Well, "extremely"

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-25 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Timothy Clemans wrote: > > RRF web page states > "The University of Washington owns any patents, trademarks, copyrights > or other work with commercial value from discoveries and inventions > resulting from work funded by the Royalty Research Fund and these will

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-25 Thread Timothy Clemans
RRF web page states "The University of Washington owns any patents, trademarks, copyrights or other work with commercial value from discoveries and inventions resulting from work funded by the Royalty Research Fund and these will be administered in accordance with the University's Patent, Inventio

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-25 Thread kcrisman
Probably obvious that I would be in favor of this getting funded :) I'm cc:ing this to sage-edu as well, along with the original post. Link to proposal is http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/attach/1f195a7c190bab0e/research.pdf?part=2 As for comments, probably too late but here goes: After

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-25 Thread Simon King
Hi William, I don't know if it is already too late... Typos have already been mentioned by others. My remark concerns the second paragraph on page 2 and is about psychology of perception: Your formulations in this paragraph seem rather negative to me. Of course, a careful reader will intellectu

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-24 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi I read it very quickly, but because of this 1) I didn't know what "PI" was 2) I saw 6 weeks mentioned first under symbolic, then 12 weeks total later. It was confusing. Perhaps mention 12 weeks in the intro. Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ --~--

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-24 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I just wrote a small Sage grant proposal to this program: > >http://www.washington.edu/research/main.php?page=rrf > > Since it's a Sage proposal it may be of interest to people on > sage-devel. They have very specific requirements so if you re

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-24 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi William, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I just wrote a small Sage grant proposal to this program: > > http://www.washington.edu/research/main.php?page=rrf > > Since it's a Sage proposal it may be of interest to people on > sage-devel. They have very

[sage-devel] Re: a Sage development grant proposal (proofread)

2009-02-24 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:41:14PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > And please tell me about any typos you find, since I have to submit > this tomorrow (in about 10 hours). Page 2: shold -> should Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ --~--~-~--