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Lorena A Barba

@labarba.bsky.social
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Engineering professor, computational scientist, jazz buff, techie, academic writer & font geek. Faculty director of the GW Open Source Program Office. lorenabarba.com www.linkedin.com/in/lorenabarba

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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Day 2 of the #GWOSCON launches with keynote speakers Andrea Fletcher and Remy DeCausemaker, leaders of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services OSPO
Photo of Andrea Fletcher on the stage
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Inessa Pawson from Open Teams highlights the barriers for participation in open source software within academia
Academic incentives prioritize public citations
IP and licensing confusion
"That's not my job" mindset
Working in public, version control
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Open source software used by NASA #GWOSCON
Slide showing logos of many OSS projects
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
March 2, 1867. CHAP. CLVIII. — An Act to establish a Department of Education. "…for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories."
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March 2, 1867.

CHAP. CLVIII. — An Act to establish a Department of Education.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established, at the city of Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm finally getting around to editing videos from online teaching during pandemic times (to remove dead times and student names and likeness), and uploading them to YouTube. This is for my "Engineering Computations" undergraduate course: #Python functions #EngineersCode #Jupyter
Screenshot of a video showing a background slide with a simple Python function
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Oh, there’s a whole catalog of such papers. I went down that rabbit hole—read, “wormhole optimizer algorithm”—a few years ago… x.com/lorenaabarba...
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Like many professors, I sometimes get bizarre requests from members of the public with an, ahem, scientific interest. This one ranks high on the bizarro scale!
Screenshot of an email message, with the text: "Hello Lorena

You have a great course in CFD. Unfortunately, CFD is not my expertise but I need hurricane modeling done for a project. Can you or a student in your group perform a feasibility study and report results?

The project is hurricane defense. I want to use explosive ordinance to disrupt hurricane formation to prevent hurricanes from making landfall. Hurricanes cause catastrophic damage and we severely lack defense for it."
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
📢Friday, Oct. 25, 12– 1pm EST—today!—tune in to the live stream: "Open Source Software as Infrastructure for Diamond Open Access" featuring @arfon.bsky.social @karthik.io, Rowan Cockett and yours truly, hosted by the GW OSPO Zoom link to join: gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/9609436569...
Simple graphic with title "Open Access Week Live Panel: Open Source Software as Infrastructure for Diamond Open Access," and photos of the speakers: Arfon Smith, Karthik Ram, Rowan Cockett, Lorena Barba.
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
I wrote a demo using JupyterAI to auto-generate course learning objectives for all 108 engineering courses listed in the university bulletin for my department, based on their short descriptions… Find the full demo via this short URL to nbviewer: http//go.gwu.edu/...
Screenshot of the title and first two paragraphs of the demo: "Generate Learning Objectives for MAE courses with AI" as rendered by nbviewer
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
AI playgrounds and chat apps are great, but have you heard about Jupyter AI? I wrote a little lesson on using #JupyterAI for my students and colleagues, and my peeps everywhere. go.gwu.edu/engcomp7less... #Jupyter #OpenAI #EngineersCode
Screenshot from nbviewer showing the start of the lesson on Jupyter AI.
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