Software Released: ACE

Just a quick note to celebrate the release of software that I've been working on for the past five years.

Well, requirements and design for the past five years, then three years on prototypes that didn't pan out and then the past two years working on the prototype that was released last week!

The software is hosted here:

<http://ace.hwr.arizona.edu/>

Its called ACE which stands for Age Calculation Engine and its targeted at geoscientists who work in an area known as cosmogenic nuclide dating. This work was funded by my NSF ITR grant entitled "ITR: Collaborative Research: Software for Interpretation of Cosmogenic Isotope Inventories - A Combination of Geology, Modeling, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence." I'm a Co-PI (principle investigator) on the project, the PIs were my colleagues Liz Bradley (also at CU) and Marek Zreda, a geoscientist at the University of Arizona.

I published a paper on ACE at the ADVCOMP 2007 conference entitled ACE: Age Calculation Engine — A Design Environment for Cosmogenic Dating Techniques although that paper discusses and shows screenshots of our second prototype that was ultimately abandoned for the one released last week.

After five years of work, its incredibly pleasing to have the software out in the wild and gaining increasing attention from Marek's research community!

We have a few updates planned: new components, analytical tools and a graphical, drag-and-drop workflow editor that I'm working on now.

Enjoy!

Ken