Grant Application 2012: Scientific Computing in Ruby

Applicant: The Ruby Science Foundation

Contact: John Woods (Director)

Email: john.o.woods@gmail.com

Biography:

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Project title: Developing Ruby into a Scientific Computing Language

Project details:

Scientific Computing is an area currently dominated by proprietary scripting languages such as MATLAB. There are also a number of domain-specific scripting languages that dominate individual fields (such as IDL in astronomy). Universally, these are expensive solutions, and they tend to be poorly suited for general programming work.

There is a trend in the scientific computing community to move toward open source solutions based on a general purpose existing language. The focus is primarily on Python and SciPy thanks to SciPy's relative maturity. Yet, the market remains dominated by proprietary solutions.

Project deliverables:

Proposed grant amount: $3,000 - $5,000 USD