The work of compiling historical earthquake archives from historical sources has never been ceased in China.
Nor did kings eschew the work of compiling encyclopaedias.
As software delivery and maintenance plays no part in the publication process, the biologist is usually left with the work of compiling source code, manually installing required software libraries and debugging platform-incompatible code: for instance, having to decipher obscure output such as the GNU make command reporting a g++ error because the wrong version of libboost-dev is installed.
It took roughly six years to cultivate: four years of filing requests under the Freedom of Information Act to find out what was available and get the information from the government and two years of the tedious work of compiling the data and putting the information on the Web site.
Investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism, did the hard work of compiling and analyzing all of these cases between September 11 , 2001 and August 2011.
* Thanks also to Aaron King and Frank Orlando, my former grad student colleagues at Duke, for doing the hard work of compiling these data.
"That was very upsetting to these girls because it's like a diary for them six months or a years worth of work of compiling pictures," he explains.
Inspired by this, Lowood and four other members of his committee - fellow Stanford boffin Matteo Bittanti, game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretsky, and game journalist Christopher Grant, decided to inaugurate a digital gaming canon, similar to the work of the National Film Preservation board, which compiles an annual list of films to be added to a registry at the Library of Congress.
All the work of seemingly endless days is compiling into one singular piece of paper: your college degree.
For Professor Garraty and his collaborators, the process of compiling the work raised large, difficult questions about the function of biography and the power of individuals, famous and not, to shape history.
The annual report to Congress from the council, which compiles the work of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon and other agencies, showed little change in the estimate of the overall ballistic missile threat facing America, according to a spokesman for the C.I.A.
