New free book from Microsoft Research. I really can’t wait to dig into this.  The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research Presenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered...

Cool paper. I remember seeing a talk on this a few years ago. I think a lot of what they say here parallels my own experience with the common IM and social networking tools of the day. Definitely worth a read. I like the final sentence in the clip I pulled below, “Glancephones were originally invented...