Pinned post Roberto Di Cosmo @rdicosmo · Feb 18, 2016, Feb 18, 2016, 5:04 AM 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.
Roberto Di Cosmo @rdicosmo · Aug 4, Aug 4, 2026, 1:12 PM "This way of collecting data is very wasteful."An Akamai specialist, on how AI crawlers gather material from the web. September 2024.
Roberto Di Cosmo @rdicosmo · Dec 1, 2025, Dec 1, 2025, 7:46 PM 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, Oct 29, 2025, 11:17 AM 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, Oct 7, 2025, 3:44 PM 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