Professor of Computing Sciences, Elon University
A software developer and database designer by trade, Megan Squire studies free, libre and open-source software (FLOSS), specifically the collection, curation, and federation of large amounts of textual data. Her primary research interest is in the area of large database systems, especially data collection, aggregation, and mining. She co-founded and leads a project called FLOSSmole, a team of software developers who write programs to collect and analyze this FLOSS data, and then freely provide the data sets and results back to the scientific research community.
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Aug 15, 2017 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
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