Teaching Commission Newsletter No 3 / CompComm Newsletter No 10 : November 2009

(with the theme of: 'Age Concern')

(This Issue's Editor - Lachlan Cranswick)

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Newsletter 10 Addenda:

• Addendum A: Historical teaching material (50 Meg Printer/Screen Resolution PDF)
• Addendum B: Computing Software manuals and reference materials from Age Concern Article (11 Meg Screen Resolution PDF/ 56 Meg Printer Resolution PDF)
• CRYRM suite source code as zip file
• GX source code as zip file
• CAOS source code as zip file
• DIMS source code as zip file
• Snapshot of Armel Le Bail's Crystallography Source Code Museum as zip file

Articles/features in this issue

• IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing
• IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Teaching

• Age Concern:

  • Age Concern - the Background - Judith A. K. Howard and David J. Watkin
  • Small Molecule ToolBox - Luc J. Bourhis, Richard J. Gildea, Oleg V. Dolomanov, Judith A.K. Howard & Horst Puschmann
  • Small Molecule Crystallography Toolkit - Mustapha Sadki
  • Olex2 - A Crystallographic System for the Future - Oleg V. Dolomanov, Luc J. Bourhis, Richard J. Gildea, Judith A. K. Howard & Horst Puschmann
  • CRYRM - David Duchamp, Larry Henling & Richard Marsh
  • DIMS - Direct methods In Multidimensional Space - Hai-fu Fan & Yuan-xin Gu
  • About Crunch 1.5 Direct Methods Software - R. de Gelder, R.A.G. de Graaff & W.J. Vermin
  • Experience converting a large Fortran-77 program to C++ - Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve, Thomas C. Terwilliger & Paul D. Adams
  • Crystallographic Computing in Glasgow: The GX Program System - Kenneth W. Muir
  • The Quick and Dirty Crystallographic Computer Program - Joseph H. Reibenspies
  • 1974-76: The first version of CAOS for the HP 21MX minicomputer - Riccardo Spagna
  • FORTRAN package to handle a direct access file - Riccardo Spagna
  • FORTRAN routines to create and use a Crystallographic Database - Riccardo Spagna
  • PLATON: Past, Present and Future - Ton Spek
  • List of programs archived at Armel Le Bail's Crystallography Source Code Museum

• Historical Computing and Teaching School Photographs::

  • Some Photographs and Reminiscences from the Computing Schools of the 1970's - Ton Spek
  • Photographs from the Erice 1978 School on Direct Methods for Solving Crystal Structures (27 March to 9 April 1978) - Lodovico Riva
  • Group photograph from the NATO School on the Experimental Aspects of X-ray and Neutron Diffraction, Aarhus, Denmark, 1972 - David Watkin
• Call for Contributions to the Next CompComm Newsletter

Newsletter 10 Addendum A: Historical teaching material:

• Practical Aspects of Direct Phase Determination - Isabella L. Karle (presented at the Erice School: Direct Methods for Solving Crystal Structures, 27 March to 9 April 1978)
• Partial Structures and use of the Tangent Formula - Isabella L. Karle (presented at the Erice School: Direct Methods for Solving Crystal Structures, 27 March to 9 April 1978)
• The Analytical Theory of Point Systems (1923) - J. D. Bernal (1901-1971) (with Introductions by Alan Mackay and Rolph Schwarzenberger)

Newsletter 10 Addendum B: Computing Software manuals and reference materials from Age Concern Articles:

• User's Guide to the CRYRM Crystallographic Computing System (December 1964) - David J. Duchamp
• The CRYM Crystallographic Computing System (1991) - David J. Duchamp, Richard E. Marsh, Jean Westphal and many co-workers
• About Crunch 1.5 (including scripts) - R. de Gelder, R.A.G. de Graaff & W.J. Vermin
• CRYRM suite source code (as separate zip file) - David Duchamp, Larry Henling & Richard Marsh
• GX Manual (source code as separate zip file) - Ken Muir
• CAOS Manual (source code as separate zip file) - R. Spagna
• DIMS (source code as separate zip file) - Hai-fu Fan
• Crystallography Source Code Museum (as separate zip file)