MacResearch

Apple has posted a page on their WWDC web site targeting scientists. The page touts WWDC as a great place to learn how to develop scientific apps for the iPhone, and learn about new high-performance technologies in Snow Leopard such as OpenCL and Grand Central Dispatch. But perhaps most interesting of all is a mysterious 'Science Coding Project'. According to the page

WWDC will feature a Science Coding Project for anyone interested in showing off what they’ve learned at the sessions with a fun, hands-on project. Come to the Coding Project area during session breaks to work with your peers on implementing the latest Mac OS X technologies to increase the performance and power of our open source project. You’ll get a chance to contribute your own coding expertise and implement your newly-found insights in a hands-on environment.

Hmm, intriguing. Wonder which open source project they have in mind ... something of particular use to scientists perhaps.