Will Schroeder

Will Schroeder, Ph.D., is President, CEO and co-founder of Kitware, Inc. (www.kitware.com), a company focused on the creation and support of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology.

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The Problem with Open Science

One of the tragedies of the modern age is that we have to prepend the word “open” onto science in order to differentiate Open Science from the regular kind — you know, the kind that’s overrun with IP restrictions and practiced by way too many academic and research organizations. It should never have come to ...

The Goods on Open Source? It’s the Collaboration

If you ask me what the single most important benefit of an open source systems is, I would unhesitatingly say “accelerates collaboration and hence innovation” through extended communities. Not only is it fun to work within international communities, but if you want to build leading-edge software an open source approach is the best way to ...

The Problem with “Open” Science

One of the tragedies of the modern age is that we have to prepend the word “open” onto science in order to differentiate Open Science from the regular kind — you know, the kind that’s overrun with IP restrictions and practiced by way too many academic and research organizations. It should never have come to ...