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In December 2006, I was one of the members of the evaluation committee
of the 4D2U project,
featuring interactive three-dimensional visulation of astrophysical
simulations, for research as well as educational purposes, at the
National Astronomical Observatory
of Japan.
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In November 2006, Jun Makino and I released
ACS 1.3, a new version
of our Art of Computational Science
project. Our main addition is a new version of our introductory volume
Moving
Stars Around.
Also in November, New Scientist posted
short
responses to the question ``What do you think (or
hope) will be the most significant breakthrough in your field in the next
fifty years.
My
response focused on the discovery of life elsewhere in the Universe.
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In October 2006, I published a preprint titled
Virtual Laboratories,
to be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics. In this paper, I
describe the suggestion by
Jun
Makino and me to extend the Open Source approach to an
Open Knowledge initiative.
Also in October, the
spiked
web site featured invited contributions from a number of scientists
in answer to the question What inspired you to take up science?
My contribution was titled
Traveling
to the Edge of the Known.
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In September 2006, I participated in a one-day workshop on
Multi-scale,
Multi-physics Software Frameworks, at Drexel University, with topics
ranging from climate modeling to
simulations of gravitational radiation produced by binary black holes.
Also in September, I started a
series of dialogues
about the nature of knowing, between me and several volunteers,
on our Ways of Knowing web site.
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In August 2006, I participated in the
General Assembly
meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Prague,
where I gave talks at the
Joint
Discussions 06 and 14.
In July 2006, I participated in a fascinating
interdisciplinary
workshop in Hakone, Japan, organized by the new Japanese
National Institute for Natural
Sciences. The topics ranged from astrophysics and plasma physics
to various areas in biology.
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In June 2006, our B612 Foundation
presented several papers at the NASA Near Earth Object Workshop held in Vail,
Colorado. I co-authored papers on
The Gravity Tractor,
The Asteroid Tugboat, and
Trajectory Dynamics.
Also in June, we added a large number of
transcripts of
dialogues between
Steven
Tainer and me on our
Ways of Knowing web site.
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