I have already mentioned elsewhere that the OSGi technology is likely to play an important part in the computerization of current and future buildings. It is a very attractive programming model for building management systems, especially with respect to its software lifecycle model (stopping, updating and restarting) that does not require a reboot of the […]
Philip Greenspun has written a nice report on a MIT meeting whose theme was energy. You can find it here.
Grant that I will never ever have to submit a paper in Word format again… But in case that should happen, here is David’s step-by-step cookbook for converting a ground-breaking paper on building physics from LaTeX to Word format. The idea is to first convert it to HTML, and use Word to convert it—something that […]
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a rich state-of-the-art C library of mathematical routines. Pretty much everything you could think of—special functions, linear algebra, function optimization, fast Fourier transforms, and much, much more—is covered by this library. I have taken over the open-source Java GNU Scientifc Library project at SourceForge. The plan is to write […]