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Research 2.0 - from scientists to citizens
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:15 PM
Bill St. Arnaud from CANARIE gave a presentation about "Participative Science", quite an exciting idea of using the participative web to go from traditional closed science grid networks to providing citizens the ability to access and analyse datasets themselves. Earlier in the day, in response to a question about "what is the participative web... Read More...
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computer science transforming scientific research - Andrew Herbert
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:43 AM
Andrew Herbert is Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge I would summarise the underlying theme of his presentation as the application of thinking, methodologies, and tools from the realm of computer science to other scientific fields. Here are some fairly raw notes on his presentation: The sciences are all increasingly relying on computer science... Read More...
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backgrounder: e-Science
Sunday, September 30, 2007 5:45 PM
e-Science, also called e-Research or cyberinfrastructure, will be the topic of Session 2, Stream B "Research 2.0: e-Science and new ways of interaction in the science community". Originally the term encompassed mainly large science projects, using grid computing in order to provide a powerful technology platform for distributed science. However, with... Read More...
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