Greg Wilson, a software productivity researcher and long-time acquaintaince now at UToronto, forwarded me the attached invitation, which I thought you may want to accept as well.
A group of us are running a survey to find out how scientists actually use computers in their day-to-day work. The blurb we're sending out is included below, and I'd be happy to provide more information. We've promised first crack at the results to "American Scientist", but will be making the data generally available. We'd be very grateful if you could spread the word through mailing lists, your blog, your web site, or whatever --- we'd like to get as many people to respond as possible.
Thanks,
Greg
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Computers are as important to modern scientists as test tubes, but we know surprisingly little about how scientists develop and use software in their research. To find out, the University of Toronto, Simula Research Laboratory, and the National Research Council of Canada have launched an online survey in conjunction with "American Scientist" magazine. If you have 20 minutes to take part, please go to:
http://softwareresearch.ca/seg/SCS/scientific-computing-survey.html
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jo Hannay (Simula Research Laboratory)
Hans Petter Langtangen (Simula Research Laboratory)
Dietmar Pfahl (Simula Research Laboratory)
Janice Singer (National Research Council of Canada)
Greg Wilson (University of Toronto)