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* Challenges and opportunities
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** Software is Knowledge
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*** /Key mediator/ for accessing /all/ information (c) Banski :B_picblock:
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Information is *a main pillar* of our modern societies.
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Absent an ability to correctly interpret digital information, we are left
with [...] "rotting bits" [...] of no value.
\mbox{}\hfill Vinton G. Cerf IEEE 2011
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*** Software is /an essential component/ of modern scientific research :B_picblock:
# Deep knowledge embodied in complex software systems
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[...] the vast majority describe experimental methods or software that have become essential in their fields.
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\mbox{}\hfill Top 100 papers (Nature, October 2014)
# http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224
** So many challenges and opportunities: let's name a few
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*** Scientific (non) reproducibility :B_picblock:
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- inconsistencies
- data corruption
- fraud
- non reproducible findings...
(picture from Nature, Sep. 2015)
*** (Lack of) Security and Quality of Software
- vulnerabilities and bugs in systems...
- ... become critical with IoT
*** (Potential) Citizen empowerment
\mbox{}\hfill we need to have *access* to the /software that governs our life/
** Zoom on reproducibility
*** Reproducibility (Wikipedia)
the ability of an entire experiment or study to be \emph{reproduced}\\
\hfill either by the researcher or \emph{by someone else working independently}.
*** Why we want it
- foundation of the scientific method
- accelerator of research: allows to build upon previous work
- transparency of results eases acceptance
- reproducibility is \emph{the essence} of \emph{industry}!
*** For an experiment involving software, we need
- open access :: to the scientific article describing it
- open data sets :: used in the experiment
- source code :: of all the components
# - environment :: of execution
# - stable references :: between all this
* Software source code is essential
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