Documents and References

This web page presents my thoughts on the software I use in my research. It is mostly concerned about the tools that build my virtual laboratory. Some of these documents are unfinished drafts ...

• Java movie display for 3-D seismic data (html, ps) is an interactive viewing program. The implementation is ight-weight and easily extendible. It should run on any Java platform (including your favorite browser) with Java 4.1 or higher.
• Reproducible documents for the Internet (html, ps) are the essence of a virtual laboratory. The electronic document integrates a scientist's explainations, images, and programs necessary to compute the results. When offered on the Internet using Java programs, reproducible documents communicate not only the ideas and concept of the author, but all implementation details. Additionally, reproducible documents help the authors maintain their work.
• Reproducible documents for UNIX systems (html, ps) is a mature and tried implementation research publication system at my laboratory (SEP). The UNIX system is extremly flexible and is not limited to a particular programming language.
• Future (html, ps) developments will hopefully make the virtual laboratory common place. The reproducible electronic document will become fully functional as web documents. Scientists will be able to integrate their file system, their publications and software, and the world wide web. I hope standardization and object-orientation will enable us to share improved tools, such as editors or a Make dependency tool.
• Java (html, ps) is my programming language of choice. Read here why.
• Linux (html, ps) is my favorite operating system for researcher in computational sciences. Join an enthusiastic user community and its open and flexible OS. Here is my a page with useful hints. Paul Hargrove and James Ricket helped starting Linux at SEP.
• Latex2e (html, ps) is my word processing tool of choice. Its capabilities to create mathematical expressions is unsurpassed. Latex and Tex are the standard for people expressing math. Sergey Fomel did most of the work introducing Latex2e at SEP. Martin Karrenbach integrated Latex, and cake. We use Latex2html to convert our Latex documents to HTML documents. Unfortunately, the results are not perfect, but acceptable. XML might be an alternative.
• Web design (html, ps) includes my musings and advice for the design of fast, functional, and fat web pages. These pages here and the previous SEP home page was designed along these criteria.
• Software distribution on the Web (html, ps) describes the work Joel Schroeder and I did to make SEP software available on the web. Details out-of-date.
• Document maintenance (html, ps) describe the tests my scripts perform on a reproducible electronic document. Details out-of-date.