Software

Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First

What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...

Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Critiqued coronavirus simulation gets thumbs up from code-checking efforts

“Totally unreliable.” “A buggy mess.” Over the past month, software engineers have sharply criticized the code underpinning...

Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...

Dalmeet Singh Chawla

A Wayback Machine for Source Code

The web is fragile. In March 2016, software developer Azer Koçulu famously broke the internet by taking 11 lines of open source computer...

Dalmeet Singh Chawla