To verify them requires almost as much effort as it took to create them originally. It is time to plunge into a new era. This software, gathered and prepared at the Stanford Exploration Project, is presented in a way to encourage you to prepare reproducible electronic documents. Most figure captions contain pushbuttons. Some of these pushbuttons launch fun interactive programs.
Some people see reproducibility of research as a troublesome ethical issue.
We see it as an everpresent, irritating practical concern. We are annoyed when we cannot easily reproduce our own work. Some of us are irritated when other professors publish grandiloquent papers whose conclusions require too much time to confirm. Paper no longer serves us well. Our data now resides in a computer, and our theory is embodied in computer programs.