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:''Generally, the word Gaussian pertains to Carl Friedrich Gauss and his ideas.''
'GAUSSIAN' is a computational chemistry software program, first written by John Pople. [1]The name originates from Pople's use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up calculations compared to those using Slater-type orbitals. The practice improved performance on slower computer hardware and facilitated the growth of computational chemistry, particularly ab initio methods such as Hartree-Fock. Gaussian's copyright was originally held by Carnegie Mellon University, and later by Gaussian, Inc.
Gaussian quickly became a popular and widely-used electronic structure program. Prof. Pople and his research group were among those who pushed the development of the package, including cutting-edge research in quantum chemistry and other fields.
Gaussian, Inc. has recently attracted a lot of controversy for licensing terms which some scientists consider overly restrictive. In particular, scientists and others who work on competing software have been denied licenses to use the software, and peers who permit such scientists access to the software have also been "banned" from using it; the list of scientists so banned included John Pople (the program's initial creator) prior to his death in 2004. Several notable academic institutions, including Caltech and U.C. Berkeley, have been blacklisted in their entirety. [2]. This controversial practice has been remarked on by publications such as ''Nature''[3] and ''Chemical and Engineering News''[4] Additionally, the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists issued a referendum deploring the practice.[5]
1. ''Computational Chemistry'', David Young, Wiley-Interscience, 2001. Appendix A. A.2.4 pg 336, Gaussian
2. http://www.bannedbygaussian.org/
3. Software company bans competitive users, Jim Giles, , , Nature,
4. Grumblings about Gaussian, , , , Chemical and Engineering News,
5. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/watoc/resolution.html
★ GAMESS
★ MOLCAS
★ MOLPRO
★ MPQC
★ Psi3
★ Q-Chem
★ Gaussian Homepage
★ Gaussian detractors
'GAUSSIAN' is a computational chemistry software program, first written by John Pople. [1]The name originates from Pople's use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up calculations compared to those using Slater-type orbitals. The practice improved performance on slower computer hardware and facilitated the growth of computational chemistry, particularly ab initio methods such as Hartree-Fock. Gaussian's copyright was originally held by Carnegie Mellon University, and later by Gaussian, Inc.
Gaussian quickly became a popular and widely-used electronic structure program. Prof. Pople and his research group were among those who pushed the development of the package, including cutting-edge research in quantum chemistry and other fields.
Gaussian, Inc. has recently attracted a lot of controversy for licensing terms which some scientists consider overly restrictive. In particular, scientists and others who work on competing software have been denied licenses to use the software, and peers who permit such scientists access to the software have also been "banned" from using it; the list of scientists so banned included John Pople (the program's initial creator) prior to his death in 2004. Several notable academic institutions, including Caltech and U.C. Berkeley, have been blacklisted in their entirety. [2]. This controversial practice has been remarked on by publications such as ''Nature''[3] and ''Chemical and Engineering News''[4] Additionally, the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists issued a referendum deploring the practice.[5]
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| External links |
References
1. ''Computational Chemistry'', David Young, Wiley-Interscience, 2001. Appendix A. A.2.4 pg 336, Gaussian
2. http://www.bannedbygaussian.org/
3. Software company bans competitive users, Jim Giles, , , Nature,
4. Grumblings about Gaussian, , , , Chemical and Engineering News,
5. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/watoc/resolution.html
See also
★ GAMESS
★ MOLCAS
★ MOLPRO
★ MPQC
★ Psi3
★ Q-Chem
External links
★ Gaussian Homepage
★ Gaussian detractors
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