The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.
The Citizen Lab has created such software as psiphon, and I have great respect for the work they do to keep the internet open. I was lucky enough to take a class with Professor Ronald J. Deibert and have Nart Villeneuve, who I will be reporting to during my internship, as my TA. Im really looking forward to it as this will give me a chance to work on software in a very diferent enviorment, and maybe even push some GPL code out into the wild. For more info about the Citizen Lab see the video below.
Edit: And as an extra bonus it seems I will get to code in python!
On of the best features that linux has in my opinion is synaptic, I have said this before and I will say it again. Why is synaptic so great? You can fire it up and search for any package you like and then with a few clicks install that program. I have recently had two great finds with synaptic, the first came in my algorithms class I was sitting at school doing some homework and one of my buddies asked me if I had a program to find a maximum flow of a graph. Simply by searching for “max flow” in synaptic I was able to find a program called GraphThing that lets you draw graphs and then run all sorts of simple algorithms on them like, max flow, minimum spanning tree, and may more. GraphThing dose have some faults however it is unable to have an edge to a node with capasity of 3 and an edge in the opsit direction with capasity 5 but it is a great application for starters. then a Funny thing is not moments later do we find some notes online but they are stored in chm format, once again I fire up synaptic this time I search for “chm” and moments later Im using xchm a great chm viewer.
What great programs have you found using synaptic?
