Welcome to the World of HUBzero
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Opening remarks for the 2012 HUBbub Conference. The HUBzero team creates software for building collaboratories for research, education, and collaboration. It all started with nanoHUB.org, but HUBzero now support more than 40 science gateways around the world. Together, these hubs have served a total of more than 800,000 visitors during the 12 months before HUBbub.
HUBbub 2012 marks the release of HUBzero v1.1. This new release of the software contains more than 40 new features, including collaborative projects, federated identity, Pegasus workflows, new user dashboard, email gateway for support tickets and discussion, WYSIWYG wiki editor, drawing interface in the Rappture toolkit, tag hierarchies and improved tag management, and much more. New features are being added all the time--particularly in areas of data management and online education.
The HUBzero Foundation is a non-profit LLC created to help disseminate the use of HUBzero and coordinate community contributions. Institutions, companies, and government agencies that are encouraged to join this organization and help support the overall mission.
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Michael McLennan is a senior research scientist at Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, where he is Director of the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration. He received a Ph.D. in 1990 from Purdue University, supported as an SRC Graduate Fellow, for his dissertation on dissipative quantum mechanical electron transport in semiconductor heterostructure devices. He spent 14 years working in industry at Bell Labs and Cadence Design Systems, developing software for computer-aided design of integrated circuits. He created [incr Tcl], an object-oriented extension of the Tcl scripting language, which has been used by thousands of developers worldwide on projects ranging from the TiVo digital video recorder to the Mars Pathfinder. He coauthored two books, Effective Tcl/Tk Programming (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and Tcl/Tk Tools (O'Reilly Media, 1997). His latest project is the Rappture Toolkit, which accelerates the process of creating scientific tools for simulation and modeling.