A hackfest by any other name
April 2, 2011
For the last couple of years, I’ve helped to run workshops in Taipei with Academia Sinica and in Beijing with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the topic of citizen cyberscience. These…
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Myth #3: Nobody will be interested in my science
March 8, 2011
The third of the “urban myths of citizen cyberscience” that I want to debunk is one that I have a lot of sympathy with. “Nobody will be interested in my science” might seem…
- Tags: accelerator physicists, hadron collider, proton beams
Myth #2 and the Large Hadron Collider
February 26, 2011
In my last post, I argued that the range of problems which can be tackled with volunteer computing is expanding in lockstep with the exponential improvements of the Internet. This was in the context…
- Tags: large hadron collider, particle collider, proton collisions
Myth #2 Citizen cyberscience won’t work for my science
February 25, 2011
While I am clearly a fan of citizen cyberscience, I would not for an instant pretend that it is some sort of scientific panacea. There are lots of problems where it is irrelevant or inapplicable. But…
- Tags: cyberscience, leaps and bounds, myth 2
Myth #1: citizen cyberscience doesn’t produce real science
February 24, 2011
In my last post I listed “seven urban myths of citizen cyberscience” and promised to expand on these in the coming posts. Each myth has its origins in the surprisingly sceptical reactions…
- Tags: Citizen, citizen science, double whammy, litmus test, Myth, reaction
The seven urban myths of citizen cyberscience
February 23, 2011
If you give scientists a free lunch, they’ll eat it. So if you offer them free resources in abundance for their research, they ought to gobble up that opportunity, too. Or so you would…
- Tags: citizen support, seven habits of highly effective people, urban myths
The first 100 days
December 6, 2010
I am now almost exactly 100 days into my Shuttleworth Fellowship. The day after I started the fellowship, on 2 September, a team of us organized a first London Citizen Cyberscience Summit. Talk about…
- Tags: africamap, Citizen, fellowship, Shuttleworth, theoretical physicists, world community grid
The first 100 days
December 6, 2010
I am now almost exactly 100 days into my Shuttleworth Fellowship. The day after I started the fellowship, on 2 September, a team of us organized a first London Citizen Cyberscience Summit. Talk about…
- Tags: africamap, Citizen, fellowship, Shuttleworth, theoretical physicists, world community grid
>1 Chinese/second
October 18, 2010
The number of Chinese connecting to the Internet over the last few years has been phenomenal. According to official statistics published by the China Internet Network Information Centre, the number…
- Tags: china internet network, chinese internet users, world community grid
Why do I blog?
October 12, 2010
The short answer to this question is that I promised Helen, Karen, Karien and Wendy that I would. The longer answer is that since September 1st, I am a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, which is…
- Tags: dynamic team, experiment, Fellow, Karien, Mark Shuttleworth, open source community
Why a billion brains?
September 15, 2010
This is my first post on the Billion Brain Blog, so a few words of explanation about the name of the blog are in order. This blog is about my views on citizen cyberscience, that is to say all sorts…
- Tags: brain power, Citizen, cyberscience, post, web citizen
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