SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WITH LIMITED RESOURCES
[...]Uruguayan research groups often pool their money to buy new equipment, repair damaged instruments and pay technicians, Nesmachnow says. "In a world where most major software products - Adobe, Microsoft, Google - require either an active Internet connection or periodic phone-homes, this bro...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Nature (London) 2019-05, Vol.569 (7754), p.147-148 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [...]Uruguayan research groups often pool their money to buy new equipment, repair damaged instruments and pay technicians, Nesmachnow says. "In a world where most major software products - Adobe, Microsoft, Google - require either an active Internet connection or periodic phone-homes, this broken-by-design approach to modern software tools increases the digital divide in areas with limited Internet." [...]Duckles says, "you have to have a mindset where you think you can solve your problems". ? |
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ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |
DOI: | 10.1038/d41586-019-01314-3 |