mathaction is on the critical path, or so you've convinced me. we need to get it on the desktop, rework axiom to have a browser front end, make "drag and drop" programs work. and we need it standalone so we can get the doyen idea (a bootable liveCD science platform) demonstrated. doyen exists on sourceforge (doyencd project). i can make bootable cds that interact with axiom thru a browser but i don't have a mathaction interface. making mathaction work on the desktop is important for future use.
i've made the proceedings CDs for the last 2 ISSAC conferences. i expect to make the third. but this time i'd like to demonstrate a doyen science platform that runs axiom in a browser and can do drag-and-drop program installation. the CD push begins in may so we'd need to demonstrate the ability by then. if we can get computer algebra working on a doyen cd then we can construct web pages for various sciences that demonstrate the idea of a doyen science platform. once we do that we can have a CD at every science conference. and if the "drag-and-drop" works with literate programs we can show that conference papers can be "executable" and demonstrate real results by executing on the user's laptop. this will make "showing the program" as important to computational science as "showing the proof" is to mathematics. and, if we get lucky, google will fund it :-) t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
