AMN will link to blogs of individual mechanicians

As a further experiment to build the cyberinfrastructure of Applied Mechanics, Applied Mechanics News will link to blogs maintained by individual mechanicians. (A 2003 report of a NSF blue-ribbon advisory panel articulated the need for a cyberinfrasturture – both as a word and as a real entity – and estimated that sustained new NSF funding of 1 billion per year would be needed to establish an Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program.)

As a part of the experiment, we’ll select each blog using the following criteria:

• The blog is actively maintained by one or a group of mechanicians.
• Entries of the blog are of interest to a large segment of the international community of Applied Mechanics.
• The blog will reciprocate by linking to Applies Mechanics News.

The first two blogs that we’ve linked to are Modeling Place, maintained by Professor Rui Huang, of the University of Texas at Austin, and his group members; and R. Salgado’s Blog, maintained by Professor Rodrigo Salgado, of Purdue University. You can access the two blogs from the links in the sidebar of Applied Mechanics News. Please tell us of any other blogs we should link to.