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The software sustainability alliance is an effort started by existing software sustainability initiatives worldwide to work together and support each other. The institute for biodiversity science and sustainability ibss is a part of the california academy of sciences. Universities and academic software development software. Software engineering in academic and commercial research. By sarah gibson, research software engineer at the alan turing institute and software sustainability institute fellow, and graham lee, research software engineer at the university of oxford and head. Us research software sustainability institute urssi. We help people build better software, and we work with researchers, developers. The software sustainability institute cultivates better, more sustainable, research software to enable worldclass research. Neil chue hong edinburgh, city of edinburgh, united. The institute s fellowship programme provides funding for researchers who want to improve how research software is used in their domains andor area of work. In phases 1 prepare and 2 deploy we developed an understanding of the state of the nation of research software. Since 2010, the software sustainability institute has facilitated the. Software sustainability institute fellows 2017 announced.
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