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Dario Izzo

If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too!!! - 3 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ce-climate-emails-code-release

open science

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  • Les Hatton, an international expert in software testing resident in the Universities of Kent and Kingston, carried out an extensive analysis of several million lines of scientific code. He showed that the software had an unacceptably high level of detectable inconsistencies.
  • pacome delva on 09 Feb 10
     
    haha. this guy won't have any new friends with this article! I kind of agree but making your code public doesn't mean you are doing good science...and inversely! He takes experimental physics as a counter example but even there, some teams keep their little secrets on the details of the experiment to have a bit of advance on other labs. Research is competitive in its current state, and I think only collaborations can overcome this fact.
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  • Juxi Leitner on 10 Feb 10
     
    well sure competitiveness is good but to verify (and that should be the case for scientific experiments) the code should be public, it would be nice to have something like bibtex for code libraries or versions used.... :) btw I fully agree that the code should go public, I had lots of trouble reproducing (reprogramming) some papers in the past ... grr
  • Francesco Biscani on 10 Feb 10
     
    My view is that the only proper way to do scientific communication is full transparency: methodologies, tests, codes, etc. Everything else should be unacceptable. This should hold both for publicly funded science (for which there is the additional moral requirement to give back to the public domain what was produced with taxpayers' money) and privately-funded science (where the need to turn a profit should be of lesser importance than the proper application of the scientifc method).
  • Dario Izzo on 08 Nov 10
     
    Same battle we are fighting since a few years....
Nina Nadine Ridder

Public Invited To Pick Pixels on Mars :: Elites TV - 0 views

elitestv.com/...invited-to-pick-pixels-on-mars

Mars HiRISE

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 21 Jan 10
     
    HiRISE team gives public the oppotunity to propose imaging targets on Mars... i.e., they kind of stole our idea from the secondary payload brainstorm!
Luís F. Simões

Lockheed Martin buys first D-Wave quantum computing system - 1 views

www.dwavesys.com/...pressreleases.html

quantum_computation

shared by Luís F. Simões on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • D-Wave develops computing systems that leverage the physics of quantum mechanics in order to address problems that are hard for traditional methods to solve in a cost-effective amount of time. Examples of such problems include software verification and validation, financial risk analysis, affinity mapping and sentiment analysis, object recognition in images, medical imaging classification, compressed sensing and bioinformatics.
  • Luís F. Simões on 26 May 11
     
    According to the company's wikipedia page, the computer costs $ 10 million. Can we then declare Quantum Computing has officially arrived?! quotes from elsewhere in the site: "first commercial quantum computing system on the market"; "our current superconducting 128-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room" Link to the company's scientific publications. Interestingly, this company seems to have been running a BOINC project, AQUA@home, to "predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques". List of papers coming out of it.
ESA ACT

crossref.org : : dois for research content - 0 views

www.crossref.org

bookmarks citations search standards web2.0 Web CollaborativeWork collaboration

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    should we add DOI links to our publications? anyone knows if ESA publications are using this?
Ma Ru

Euroscience Open Forum 2010 - 2 views

www.esof2010.org

science conference Europe

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A conference ACT should consider going to.
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  • Ma Ru on 23 Apr 10
     
    Perhaps some of ACTers will find this conference interesting... One of the talks: "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" [Edit] Oh, I see someone has already posted this link... a year ago. Anyway, if anyone of you plans to go, let me know - I'll be around ;-)
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Just came back from ESOF 2010... I was on look for ACT agents undercover, but either they were not there or the cover was good enough... Anyway here's a few remarks from me (I could write a nice report... if you paid): 1) In general, to say that ESA was underrepresented on the conference as a whole is not enough (I guess ESA just failed to notice the event taking place). For instance, on the GMES presentation, ESA as such was not mentioned at all... at some point I started to wonder if ESA is actually involved in the project, but now I checked the website and apparently it is. On the other hand, GMES presentation was crap anyway, as after 1:15 of talking, I didn't gain any knowledge of what GMES is and what its contributions to the EU community will be. 2) There was a lot of talk about LHC and particle research (well, at least among those that I attended). Some of them were very good, some of them rather crap... 3) "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" talk - quite interesting, but focusing mainly on Science-to-Wide Public and Science-to-Journalists communication. Not really on Science-to-Science (as in Ariadnet). There was quite an extensive discussion with the public. You may be interested that Nature is trying to stimulate Web 2.0 communication, running blog service, but also I think a kind of social network - perhaps you'd like to have a look. In general the conclusion was that Web 2.0 is not so useful for scientific communication because practising it requires TIME (blogs, etc.) and often some professional skills (podcasts/videocasts, etc.), and scientists have neither of these. This can be run on corporation level (like ESA does actually), but then it looses the "intimate" character. 4) "How much can robots learn?" talk... very nicely presented: understandable by the wide public, but conveying the message... which is something like "we can already make the robots do stuff absolutely imp
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Well, my comment was cut in half, and I don't feel like typing it again... the most important highlight from the rest is that the only presenter from ESA (ESTEC) did not show up on his talk because his department was undergoing some sort of audit on the same day :)
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    Fantastic comment - or better report!! thanks very much Marek! Who was the supposed no-show speaker from ESA?
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Bernard Foing (he is actually one of the 8 ESA employees who have their own page on Wikipedia)...
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    written almost entirely by a guy called a "quest for knowledge" ... who will this be????? :-)
LeopoldS

Helix Nebula - Helix Nebula Vision - 0 views

www.helix-nebula.eu/...helix-nebula-vision.html

cloud computing IT CERN

shared by LeopoldS on 20 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 Mar 13
     
    The partnership brings together leading IT providers and three of Europe's leading research centres, CERN, EMBL and ESA in order to provide computing capacity and services that elastically meet big science's growing demand for computing power.

    Helix Nebula provides an unprecedented opportunity for the global cloud services industry to work closely on the Large Hadron Collider through the large-scale, international ATLAS experiment, as well as with the molecular biology and earth observation. The three flagship use cases will be used to validate the approach and to enable a cost-benefit analysis. Helix Nebula will lead these communities through a two year pilot-phase, during which procurement processes and governance issues for the public/private partnership will be addressed.

    This game-changing strategy will boost scientific innovation and bring new discoveries through novel services and products. At the same time, Helix Nebula will ensure valuable scientific data is protected by a secure data layer that is interoperable across all member states. In addition, the pan-European partnership fits in with the Digital Agenda of the European Commission and its strategy for cloud computing on the continent. It will ensure that services comply with Europe's stringent privacy and security regulations and satisfy the many requirements of policy makers, standards bodies, scientific and research communities, industrial suppliers and SMEs.

    Initially based on the needs of European big-science, Helix Nebula ultimately paves the way for a Cloud Computing platform that offers a unique resource to governments, businesses and citizens.
  • Francesco Biscani on 21 Mar 13
     
    "Helix Nebula will lead these communities through a two year pilot-phase, during which procurement processes and governance issues for the public/private partnership will be addressed." And here I was thinking cloud computing was old news 3 years ago :)
LeopoldS

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system | Science | Th... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...er-higgs-boson-academic-system

phy physics publications

shared by LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13
     
    what an interesting personality ... very symathetic Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered "productive" enough.

    The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, who says he has never sent an email, browsed the internet or even made a mobile phone call, published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964.

    He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964."

    Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980.

    Edinburgh University's authorities then took the view, he later learned, that he "might get a Nobel prize - and if he doesn't we can always get rid of him".

    Higgs said he became "an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises". A message would go around the department saying: "Please give a list of your recent publications." Higgs said: "I would send back a statement: 'None.' "

    By the time he retired in 1996, he was uncomfortable with the new academic culture. "After I retired it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it. It wasn't my way of doing things any more. Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough."

    Higgs revealed that his career had also been jeopardised by his disagreements in the 1960s and 7
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Dec 13
     
    And the follow up by Nobel prize winner Randy Schekman http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals
  • LeopoldS on 12 Dec 13
     
    interesting one - Luzi will like it :-)
Tobias Seidl

German paper chase to end : Nature News - 5 views

www.nature.com/...4631009a.html

science publication

shared by Tobias Seidl on 25 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Tobias Seidl on 25 Feb 10
     
    No more endless publication lists needed for grant applications. Hopefully a trend that continues.
Loretta Latronico Poulain

Behavioural Economics? Try Biological Economics - 2 views

ipezone.blogspot.com/...-economics-try-biological.html

science fun

shared by Loretta Latronico Poulain on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 08 Mar 11
     
    The "Biological Economics" thing is a hyping (or misunderstanding) of the BBC article. The work it refers to seems to be an application of Complex Networks theory to financial networks. I found what appear to be some of the related publications: Andrew G. Haldane (April 2009) Rethinking the financial network (further references in the footnote to page 10) Erlend Nier, Jing Yang, Tanju Yorulmazer and Amadeo Alentorn (April 2008) Network models and financial stability Funny how these issues have been repeatedly popping up at the ACT in recent weeks. This connects both with the discussions on information spreading in networks, and with roadmaps' robustness.
ESA ACT

Thorsten Ritz Publications - 0 views

www.physics.uci.edu/...publications.html

BIO NAN PHY magnetic sensors pigeon lab

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    The biophysics guy with the good paper.
ESA ACT

CSA-Illustrata - 0 views

info.csa.com/...index-researcher.html

science publications search searchengine

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A google images-like search engine for scientific publications.
ESA ACT

What are the greatest challenges to the advancement of science and research? - 0 views

www.publicservice.co.uk/article.asp

science research future

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Our entry may not have made it to the publication but perhaps the other opinions will give some food for thought
jmlloren

Open Journal Systems | Public Knowledge Project - 3 views

pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs

Acta Futura

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  • jmlloren on 24 Nov 09
     
    Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.
  • pacome delva on 25 Nov 09
     
    seems nice, but would be a lot of work to implement and we already have something operational... It would add the search module and article in html (what about the compatibility with latex...?). For now I think we should focus on the next issue of acta futura !
Dario Izzo

Have We Detected Megastructures Built By Aliens Around A Distant Star? | Popular Science - 7 views

www.popsci.com/structures-around-distant-star

shared by Dario Izzo on 15 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 15 Oct 15
     
    Really? Is this what we were all waiting for?
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  • jcunha on 16 Oct 15
     
    Reminds me of this - the discovery of the LGM-1 (LGM= Little Green Men indeed): http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200602/history.cfm It turned out to be the first discovery of a pulsar, re-compensated by a Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Paul N on 16 Oct 15
     
    next GTOC idea?
  • jcunha on 10 Dec 15
     
    Guys in SETI have come out with a precision setup to analyze if we have found the true Death Star: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-extraterrestrial-laser-pulses-kic-seti.html Conclusions are no laser light coming out from there..
  • Paul N on 11 Dec 15
     
    to be honest, while the alien megastructure is a cookie idea, I highly doubt that those aliens woke up one day and thought: "hm, let's send laser pulses at this particular random spot in space sometime in the next 6 days".
  • jcunha on 17 May 16
LeopoldS

Finances publiques - Comment les rois de France réglaient leurs dettes - 1 views

www.herodote.net/...synthese.php

shared by LeopoldS on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 May 12
     
    Looking back in time - how the French dealt with public depts (in French) - not very "advanced concepts" but instructive nevertheless
LeopoldS

self archiving open access - 4 views

www.self-archiving.me/?ch=reg&cp=re125_x_p6

science

shared by LeopoldS on 26 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 26 Nov 11
     
    interesting information - was not that clear to me instead of doing this via mendeley, we should go over our act publication page and upload all those pdf that fall into this category ...
santecarloni

How To Build A Speech Jamming Gun - Technology Review - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...27620

technology speech gun

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  • santecarloni on 01 Mar 12
     
    he drone of speakers who won't stop is an inevitable experience at conferences, meetings, cinemas and public libraries.  Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Koji Tsukada at Ochanomizu University, both in Japan, present a radical solution: a speech jamming device that forces recalcitrant speakers into submission. 
  • Ma Ru on 01 Mar 12
     
    ...must...not...make...the...obvious...ACT...meeting...joke...
  • LeopoldS on 02 Mar 12
     
    Unfortunately it won't work when it is most needed .... Read this: "Their tests also identify some curious phenomena. They say the gun is more effective when the delay varies in time and more effective against speech that involves reading aloud than against spontaneous monologue. Sadly, they report that it has no effect on meaningless sound sequences such as "aaaaarghhh".
Alexander Wittig

Outernet: Humanity's Public Library - 1 views

www.outernet.is/en

technology space

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  • Alexander Wittig on 11 Jun 15
     
    Humanity's Public Library #ImagineIf censorship did not exist information was free for everyone, education was truly universal, every home had a library, disasters could be anticipated. Get your Lantern Portable, solar-powered, multi-frequency Outernet receiver. Maybe we should get/build one of those receivers for the ACT just because it's geeky:)
pacome delva

Players attack aerodynamics of the World Cup ball - 3 views

physicsworld.com/...42886

phy aerodynamics world_cup

shared by pacome delva on 10 Jun 10 - Cached
  • pacome delva on 10 Jun 10
     
    when physics comes into public debate... of high interest!!!
  • Joris _ on 10 Jun 10
     
    soon the ball may look like a golf ball ... better aero.
  • Ma Ru on 10 Jun 10
     
    A bad workman blames his tools... P.S. Polish version of this proverb is much nicer, and says that poor ballet dancer blames her skirt... but it's nothing compared to the Russian version, which says about a male ballet dancer who blames his... well, guess yourselves...
LeopoldS

http://www.mtu.edu/ece/department/faculty/semouchkina/publication-2010.pdf - 2 views

www.mtu.edu/...publication-2010.pdf

metamaterials

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  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 10
     
    this is the next step .... 
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