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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
16 October 09 10:39 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery .  The book focuses on the change of all sciences moving from observational, to theoretical, to computational and now to the Read More...

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New Tools Mobilize Local Data to Study Global Environmental Issues from Berkeley Lab
04 February 09 08:06 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Here’s a really good article from the folks at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the collaboration MSR has ongoing between LBL and the Berkeley Water Center.  It highlights the use of databases for scientific information as Catharine mentions… Read More...

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"How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
24 July 08 09:57 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

One of the discussions that frequently happens at the eScience/Science 2.0 type meetings is how does academia incorporate the Web 2.0 technologies (Blogging, etc) into the tenure based reward system - these are technologies that change how quickly/accessible Read More...

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The Petabyte Problem: Scrubbing, Curating and Publishing Big Data
03 July 08 02:38 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Carol Minton Morris has a good entry on the HatCheck Newsletter on Alex Szalay's keynote, “Scientific Publishing in the Era of Pedabyte Data,” at JCDL on June 19, 2008.  I always enjoy listening to Alex and hearing his perspective, especially Read More...

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