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Read Book Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science REINVENTING DISCOVERY: THE NEW ERA OF NETWORKED SCIENCE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Michael Nielsen | 272 pages | 02 Dec 2011 | Princeton University Press | 9780691148908 | English | New Jersey, United States Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science PDF Book Its still very interesting to learn about collective intelligence. Nielsen believes that mass collaboration is the future of science, and his book may be the most interesting piece of nonfiction I read this year. The picture Nielsen draws is in many ways the opposite of that of Crick and Watson alternating between fervid bouts of creativity and languid cups of tea in the company of university popsies, stealing away with Franklin's x-rays and covering up their work as they rush for publication. I would have liked to see a more serious discussion of some of the potential pitfalls of open science approaches - as it is, the author largely brushes them off while reiterating his optimism. Nielsen is clearly fired up: These tools are cognitive tools, actively amplifying our collective intelligence, making us smarter and so better able to solve the toughest scientific problems. Its powerful what a group of people can do when properly motivated and directed. I want open science to become a part of our general culture, a subject every educated layperson is familiar with, and has an opinion about. This change is being driven by powerful cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. Michael Nielsen How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discovery. An absolute must-read for any scientist. We learn, for example, how mathematicians in the Polymath Project are spontaneously coming together to collaborate online, tackling and rapidly demolishing previously unsolved problems. The notion of a shared praxis is one potentially useful takeaway. Lance Pollard permalink. More Details So, the few that are there are unique in their area. Nielsen foresees the need for creative and relentless design and redesign of collaborative platforms, for careful structuring of data and query mechanisms to facilitate automated access, and for open sharing of scientific data on a scale that dwarfs even current efforts like the Human Genome project or the Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS p No book can do it all; Reinventing Discovery makes a good initial exploration of possibilities to enhance the process of discovery. Kudos to the author for picking a timely and relevant subject perhaps just on the edge of social consciousness and making a great story out of it. Sort order. Michael Nielsen has given us an unparalleled account of how new tools for collaboration are transforming scientific practice. The book is a few years old and my impression is that the problem is less prominent in the field of computer science, which is where I spend most of my time. How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discovery. Michael Nielsen permalink. But the book is arguing that publicly funded science should be open science. He would have done far better to either avoid the subject entirely or to look at the way the blog Climate Audit studied climate reconstructions in the open and the transparent way in which climate model output has generally been made available. Reinventing Discovery doesn't just help us understand how the sciences are changing, it shows us how we can participate in the change. Nielsen's book serves as a great starting point for any reader interested in scientific discoveries. Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science Writer Lance Pollard permalink. The second third has a lot of detail about some interesting open science projects and then it moved to something of a polemic. We are in the midst of a revolution, Nielsen argues, in which networked science can solve problems at the limit of human understanding— and may even change the world. Scientists are working in networks, and those networks are gaining scope, speed, and power through the internet. I think it is a must-read book for professional scientists and a good book for science enthusiasts. He argues that the current state of academic science is untenable it is! Simply wonderful. Get A Copy. I hope the people running those other projects can forgive me. If it were updated, I think the sections of the conclusion encouraging scientists to blog, share data etc might usefully be expanded to a section of protocol advice. The idea would be to turn the "classroom" into a sapce for discovery. As citizens we must demand open science from our governments, corporations, universities, scientific institutions, and from scientists among us. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or governme In Reinventing Discovery , Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than years. After the paperback has been out for a while, I will approach my publisher again to see what can be done. Reinventing Discovery is a delightfully written, thought-provoking book. The large amount of for-profit science is hardly mentioned here; as an outside observer, I wonder if that is so trivial an omission in this age dominated by large, rich corporations. Making the change to open science is a big challenge. Series: Princeton Science Library, The book, then, is a survey of the landscape and some possible ways forward. Some critique this book for being too much like a textbook, but I found the very ideas that Nielsen has laid out to be thrilling enough that I didn't want to put it down. Apr 06, Amanda marked it as to-read Shelves: pop-sci. Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science Reviews He goes on to mention the Galaxy Zoo and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey where amateurs can do valuable work in identifying galaxies and can do it with remarkable speed and quality. As noted, it is studded with compelling real-world examples. He describes a number of projects that are models for the new kind of science he proposes, such as the Polymath Project distributed mathematical problem-solving , open source software the success of Linux, made possible through its modular nature, which allows a multitude of people to make innumerable small contributions , the Firefox bugtracker which allows any user of this open source browser to identify issues and submit enhancements , and Kasparov vs The World the grandmaster takes on the international chess community, who use online tools to suggest, evaluate and select their moves, drawing on their distributed specialised expertise. Michael Nielsen has been watching these developments too, but he's done much more: he's provided the best synthesis I've seen of this new kind of science, and he's also thought deeply about what it means for the future of how we understand the world. I believe that the process of science - how discoveries are made - will change more in the next twenty years than it has in the past years. Even though the book is already very short the main body is less than , it could still be compressed a bit more. He cites the Polymath Project as successfully demonstrating the power of online collaboration. In Reinventing Discovery , Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than years. Oct 26, Joshua added it Shelves: ay , teaching , sabbatical This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. For these reasons, I'd give the book three stars rather than two. Refresh and try again. This works best if it can be computed immediately. In general, general, I have no problem with private research not being open. It's already happening, and Nielsen's book is rich with beautiful and surprising examples. Technology is enabling new ways to do this, but they are simply not explored in this book. In a modern networked world, how can science happen differently? Nielsen makes the point that similar to the way in which Open Source has transformed software Open Science can improve science. Many of the stories were not new to me such as Galaxy Zoo or the polymath project , but I hadn't heard them in such detail before and I enjoyed learning a lot more about those successful crowd- or citizen-science projects. We learn, for example, how mathematicians in the Polymath Project are spontaneously coming together to collaborate online, tackling and rapidly demolishing previously unsolved problems. Both captivating and enlightening, this book is recommended for general readers or specialists interested in how online collaboration tools, open data policies, and networked science might benefit the future of science and humanity. Listen to our first episode. Nielsen offers keen insights into how legal, business and academic culture clashes with the pursuit of open science. An enjoyable read. Oliver Tacke permalink. The take-away is that Nielsen, as a scientist, is addressing his peers on topics that are also important to librarians. One of those fronts is to make sure that everyone — including scientists, but also grant agencies, governments, libraries, and, especially, the general public -— understands how important the stakes are, and how urgent is the need for change. May 21, Lisa Kucharski rated it it was amazing. I would love to see a rewrite of this book after having the author explore how empirical science is done He lives in Toronto. Sep 01, Lily rated it liked it Shelves: how-to , nonfiction , science , Avoid this! Nielsen starts by looking at the Polymath Project, a blog set up by Tim Gowers, a Fields Medalist, where math problems have been solved at amazing speed.
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