Roberto Di Cosmo

@rdicosmo

Scientist professor hacker writer citizen. Committed to building a better world through science technology and community. Director @swheritage. Follow ≠ endorse

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Roberto Di Cosmo
@rdicosmo
Feb 18, 2016
Yes, source code is special: it's executable knowledge that is meant to be human readable, by design. It's an all time new in human history.
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Roberto Di Cosmo
@rdicosmo
Aug 4
"This way of collecting data is very wasteful." An Akamai specialist, on how AI crawlers gather material from the web. September 2024.
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Roberto Di Cosmo
@rdicosmo
Dec 1, 2025
Fourth edition of the national #openscience award for #opensource #researchsoftware, great lineup of the representatives of the distingushed projects, congratulations! Previous editions (and soon details of this one) here 👉 ouvrirlascience.fr/category/open-… @ouvrirlascience @CNRS @Inria
Roberto Di Cosmo
@rdicosmo
Oct 29, 2025
Learn how @SWHeritage supports #openscience and provides a revolutionary very large telescope for exploring the #software galaxy from the unabridged slides from the @informatics_eu #ECSS conference 👉 annex.softwareheritage.org/public/talks/2… @ouvrirlascience @inria @TheOfficialACM @ercim_news
Roberto Di Cosmo
@rdicosmo
Oct 7, 2025
New in @Nature: time to treat software as first-class research output—preserved, referenced, valued. Read the full commentary 👉nature.com/articles/d4158… @inria @ouvrirlascience @cnrs @ResearchSoft @ResearchSoftEng @UNESCO
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