Category Archives: Science 2.0

What If Papers Had APIs?

Posted on March 27, 2015 by dabacon

API is an abbreviation that stands for “Application Program Interface.” Roughly speaking an API is a specification of a software component in terms of the operations one can perform with that component. For example, a common kind of an API … Continue reading →

Posted in Extralusionary Intelligence, Science 2.0, The Loony Bin Called Academia | 13 Comments

QIP 2015 Talks Available

Posted on March 27, 2015 by dabacon

Talks from QIP 2015 are now available on this YouTube channel. Great to see! I’m still amazed by the wondrous technology that allows me to watch talks given on the other side of the world, at my own leisure, on … Continue reading →

Posted in Quantum Computing, Science 2.0 | Leave a comment

Elsevier again, and collective action

Posted on May 3, 2014 by aram

We all know about higher education being squeezed financially. Government support is falling and tuition is going up. We see academic jobs getting scarcer, and more temporary. The pressure for research to focus on the short term is going up. … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing | 19 Comments

TQC 2014!

Posted on February 9, 2014 by aram

While many of us are just recovering from QIP, I want to mention that the submission deadline is looming for the conference TQC, which perhaps should be called TQCCC because its full name is Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Quantum Computing, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing, scirate | Leave a comment

A Federal Mandate for Open Science

Posted on February 9, 2012 by sflammia

Witness the birth of the Federal Research Public Access Act: “The Federal Research Public Access Act will encourage broader collaboration among scholars in the scientific community by permitting widespread dissemination of research findings.  Promoting greater collaboration will inevitably lead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Science, Politics, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing, Society | 2 Comments

Why boycott Elsevier?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by aram

Everyone has their own reasons for doing this. There is an interesting debate at Gower’s blog, including a response from an Elsevier employee. Some people dislike Elsevier’s high prices, their bundling practices, their fake medical journals, their parent company’s (now-former) … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Science, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing | 19 Comments

Why medicine needs scirate.com

Posted on September 13, 2011 by aram

Defenders of the traditional publishing model for medicine say that health-related claims need to be vetted by a referee process. But there are heavy costs. In quantum information, one might know the proof of a theorem (e.g. the Quantum Reverse … Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Health, Open Science, Science, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing, scirate | 10 Comments

Michael Nielsen Talks Open Science

Posted on April 7, 2011 by dabacon

TEDxWaterloo talk. See it here and start changing the way you do science:

Posted in Open Science, Science 2.0 | 1 Comment

Two Interesting LaTeX Online Editors

Posted on November 3, 2010 by dabacon

One, a Google Docs app, LaTeX Lab (thanks to Daniel for pointing this out.) Another with https support Verbosus. I couldn’t get the later to compile and display in browser with FireFox, but did in Safari. Verbosus has an android … Continue reading →

Posted in Science 2.0 | 7 Comments

In Search of Plugins

Posted on July 20, 2010 by dabacon

Speaking of blogging technology: plugins that I haven’t seen for WordPress but that would be fun (i.e. thing I’d love to do if I were king of infinite time.) A plugin to allow for comments INSIDE of a blog post.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Science 2.0 | 1 Comment