Computers: Scientific Friend or Foe?

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Computers are a comedian's best friend

Computers are a comedian's best friend 08/21/2004 08:38 PM
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Computers: Friend or foe to science?

Computers: Friend or foe to science? 08/31/2004 02:32 AM
USA Today Aug 31 2004 6:30AM GMT

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

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The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

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The Best Scientific Conferences
Anywhere, The Best Scientific Meetings
Everywhere

The Best Scientific Conferences
Anywhere, The Best Scientific Meetings
Everywhere 04/05/2005 02:16 AM
Bacterial Adhesion and Infection, First West Africa Conference: A First Class First World Scientific Meeting in a First Class Third World Setting. Mangosteen’s opening conference blazes a trail, introducing world class scientists and cutting-edge research to the African heartland. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

scientific programmer

scientific programmer 09/08/2004 05:49 PM
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Scientific Method

Scientific Method 01/16/2004 10:59 AM

What does your aggrega tor do with this?   Is it valid< /a>?

Note: in the proper application of scientific method, observation precedes the formulation of a hypothesis.  In that spirit, I’d like to ask that people indulge me for a moment and refrain from rationalizations, justifications, and explanations, and focus for the moment on simply gathering data.

Scientific Method Man

Scientific Method Man 09/01/2004 05:51 AM
Gordon Rugg cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript. Next up: everything from Alzheimer's to the origins of the universe. By Joseph D'Agnese from Wired magazine.

Scientific American Gives Up

Scientific American Gives Up 04/01/2005 11:30 AM

Top ten scientific hoaxes.

Top ten scientific hoaxes. 11/13/2003 01:43 PM
With the 50th anniversary of the exposure of Piltdown Man as a hoax coming next week, The Guardian brings you the top ten science hoaxes.

US Losing its Scientific Dominance

US Losing its Scientific Dominance 05/03/2004 08:10 AM

Python for Scientific Experiments

Python for Scientific Experiments 12/02/2003 03:12 AM
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Stone Skipping the Scientific Way

Stone Skipping the Scientific Way 01/10/2004 01:31 AM
Quirk writes "National Geographic has a bit on the scientific analysis of stone skipping. Using a machine launching aluminum disks Lyderic Bocquet, a physics ...

Boston Scientific on the Rebound

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HP Releases New RPN Scientific
Calculator

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Calculator 04/25/2004 02:01 PM

New platform for scientific research

New platform for scientific research 07/23/2004 01:27 AM
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Scientific Journal Archive

Scientific Journal Archive 08/17/2004 09:14 AM

arXiv.org e-Print archive: Here's a huge archive of scientific papers, including some great ones on computer science and information architecture (scroll just a bit — it's towards the bottom).

With great titles like "Semantic Linking — a Context-Based Approach to Interactivity in Hypermedia," "The Revolution In Database System Architecture," and (hold the phone) "Exposing Software Defined Radio Functionality To Native Operating System Applications via Virtual Devices," how can you go wrong?

Via this Wikipedia page which has this to say:

One of the most common complaints about the peer review process is that it is slow, and that it typically takes several months or even several years in some fields for a submitted paper to appear in print. In practice, much of the communication about new results in some fields such as astronomy no longer takes place through peer reviewed papers, but rather through preprints submitted onto electronic servers such as arXiv.org.

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" Python and Scientific Computing"

" Python and Scientific Computing" 04/27/2004 08:57 AM

Gri language for scientific illustration

Gri language for scientific illustration 08/15/2004 10:07 AM
gri is now on wikipedia

Scientific Programmer (C, Perl, CGI)

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Digicon Corporation - United States, Maryland, Bethesda (2005-04-08)

Scientific American Mind

Scientific American Mind 05/01/2004 12:52 AM

Boston Scientific leaps 11%

Boston Scientific leaps 11% 05/27/2004 04:43 AM
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Expanding Boston Scientific

Expanding Boston Scientific 06/01/2004 05:29 PM
The medical device maker takes advantage of Taxus sales to expand.

New Scientific Search Engine

New Scientific Search Engine 08/22/2002 04:13 AM
"...news feed from LexisNexis, bringing science related headlines from all over the world."

Color in Scientific Visualization

Color in Scientific Visualization 10/11/2002 07:55 AM

Improving Scientific Literacy

Improving Scientific Literacy 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
According to a poll conducted by The Science Advisory Board, scientists believe that governments can best improve the scientific literacy of their citizens by "teaching teachers to teach." Sixty percent of those surveyed believe that countries will get the most return on their education tax dollars by supporting teacher-training programs. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005]

Scientific-Atlanta Surges

Scientific-Atlanta Surges 01/23/2004 09:54 PM
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Blogs for scientific publishing

Blogs for scientific publishing 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs, says an article in the Wired magazine and talks about how blogs can be used in scientific publishing:

Heh. And the guy hatest the word "blog" for the same reason as I hate the Finnish word "verkkopäiväkirja" :-)

(Via biomi.o rg.)

Anakrino - scientific bible programm

Anakrino - scientific bible programm 08/03/2004 12:51 PM
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WiMax makes scientific history

WiMax makes scientific history 03/31/2005 02:28 PM
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Economics of Scientific and Biomedical
Journals

Economics of Scientific and Biomedical
Journals 03/17/2005 03:26 AM
Economics of Scientific and Biomedical Journals by Haekyung Jeon–Slaughter, Andrew A. Herkovic, and Michael A. Keller
htt p://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/index.html

Abstract:
The emergence of e–journals brought a great change in scholarly communication and in the behavior of scholars. However, the importance of scholars’ behavior in the pricing of scientific journal has been largely ignored in the recent debate between libraries and publishers over site license practices and pricing schemes. Stanford’s survey results indicate that sharply increasing costs are the main reason for individual subscription cancellation, driving users to rely on library or other institutional subscriptions. Libraries continue to be a vital information provider in the electronic era and their bargaining power in the market and the importance of roles in scholarly communication will be increased by branding and a strong relationship with users. Publishers’ strategy for thriving in the electronic era is not to lose personal subscribers. Cooperation among the three sectors — scholars, libraries, and publishers — promises optimal results for each sector more than ever.

Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific
Distortions

Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific
Distortions 02/19/2004 02:06 PM

Boston Scientific aims for confidence

Boston Scientific aims for confidence 08/21/2004 03:25 AM
Boston Globe Aug 21 2004 7:14AM GMT

WebUse: Scientific Research on the
Internet

WebUse: Scientific Research on the
Internet 02/19/2004 06:14 AM
WebUse: Scientific Research on the Internet
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/i ndex.htm

Funded by Th e National Science Foundation, the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is developing a set of resources to further the scientific study of the impact of the Internet on Societies. Central to this is understanding the transformative effect—both positive and negative—that the Internet has on human behavior and how the emerging persistent behaviors enable and constrain activities, understanding, knowledge, and culture. This research project is headed by Dr. John Robinson, Dr. Alan Neustadtl, and Dr. Meyer Kestnbaum, all at the University of Maryland. Additional support and cooperation has come from the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School, Princeton University, and Stanford University. We also have two advisory boards, one internal and one external to the University of Maryland. This project is coordinating several efforts to test competing theories and hypotheses about the Internet's impact on society, including functional equivalence and time displacement, declining social capital, classic innovation diffusion, and reconfigured social networks.

Scientific American: The Enchanted Glass

Scientific American: The Enchanted Glass 04/29/2004 07:47 AM
this Scientific American piece by Michael Shermer .. But you know there's more to me now, don't you? .. more

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Boston Scientific almost triples profit

Boston Scientific almost triples profit 07/27/2004 02:38 AM
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Changing the interface of scientific
computing

Changing the interface of scientific
computing 11/10/2003 10:58 PM
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Dr. Guy "Bud" Tribble has one of those great names you don't easily forget. Back in the early 1980s, he and his partner Andy Hertzfeld led the team at Apple Computer Co. that came up with the Macintosh user interface, one that literally changed the face of computing forever.

PASCO scientific announces My World GIS

PASCO scientific announces My World GIS 01/09/2004 09:49 PM
Aimed at students enrolled in middle school through college, My World GIS was developed by the World Watcher Project at Northwestern University after a decade of research. PASCO scientific has announced that the software will be available at the end of January; pricing will be US$59 for a Student/Home Edition license and $99 for a classroom license.

Canvas Scientific Imaging Edition (Mac)
9.0.4

Canvas Scientific Imaging Edition (Mac)
9.0.4 05/19/2004 04:11 PM
DICOM support with illustration, image editing, web & presentation features.

Scientific Visualization and Information
Architecture

Scientific Visualization and Information
Architecture 01/10/2003 04:46 AM

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