“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
—
Kranzberg’s
First Law
I’m a researcher at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. I spend most of my time designing and building astrophysical data systems. Underpinning this work is my preoccupation with all of the ways that computers could be revolutionizing science and society — but aren’t yet.
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Latest post:
2024 September 26
A quick public service announcement: I’ll be attending and presenting at the ADASS 2024 (aka ADASS 34) meeting in November! I have an accepted contributed talk entitled DASCH: Bringing 100+ Years of Photographic Data into the 21st Century and Beyond.
Recently:
| 2024 September 19 | Adventures in the HCO Logbooks |
| 2024 September 4 | Sign Up for the New DASCH Email List (Maybe) |
| 2024 August 27 | Layered Metadata: Output Diffs |
| 2024 August 22 | Layered Deployment Metadata |