TEDxWaterloo - Michael Nielsen - Open Science

Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text in the field, a text which is now one of the twenty most highly cited physics books of all time. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His research contributions include involvement in one of the first quantum teleportation experiments, named as one of Science Magazine's Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year for 1998. Michael was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico, and has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, as Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Queensland, and as a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Michael left academia to write a book about open science, and the radical change that online tools are causing in the way scientific discoveries are made.

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[AlkPacino]

Whooo, open science.

[ArdvarkOfDeath]

@WatchmenDrManhattan not everyone cares about getting the credit. most people do, but some people just want to better the world, regardless of who gets the credit and money

[RookOfOnyx]

@ArdvarkOfDeath Some men... just want to watch the world bloom.

[paulinapaulette]

I did not hear her talk about getting any credit, what she talked about was how to have an idea take off and make a difference. The reality is that great ideas do not take off and change the world by merely having one, they have to be sold to people. She simultaneously studied and came up with a way that works-through story. I have never heard someone speak so much from the heart, there was nothing even remotely about getting any credit. She changed her horrible life and that was how she did it.

[jtai36]

i don't think it's so much about credit, people on wikipedia don't get credit either :) although, sure, some of it may be that. I think the main issue though is really about whether or not such a database will be of any use. Which this talk illustrates that typically, no, those wikis don't do anything. Now sure, this is a self-fulling negative prophecy. People don't expect it to do well, so don't contribute, and the project fails. But that's the real issue I think.

[IBMua]

@ArdvarkOfDeath Total bullshit. People don't actually do science to make the world a better place. Large part of government sponsored researches are about war. You don't work in Manhattan project "to make world a better place". They just do what they know and where they can achieve and get a credit and feel important. I recommend reading Ted Kaczynski's essay "Industrial Society and Its Future".

[zzspot]

too bad most people are greedy .

[ZuttoAragi]

Does anyone know where I can get the transcript to this?

[Ko252]

@ArdvarkOfDeath You cannot do science, without the funding. And you dont get funding, without credit, etc.