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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[ArdvarkOfDeath]

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

[anderwan]

Hipster Computer Science did open science before it was cool. Seriously, I'm glad Computer Science--free and open source software--has blazed a trail for the rest of science to follow. Let's roll.

[kushsin]

It makes me sad that your understanding of the world comes from cartoons and/or American TV shows.

[NakedUndone]

peteysoft org

[MyMindTank]

“Nobody actually owns anything [ideas, ‘their’ bodies, material ‘possessions’, etc.] in fact because we are all a part of an extraordinary regenerative system."~R. Buckminster Fuller

[MyMindTank]

"A foundational premise of the market economy is singular ownership, a metaphysical notion, clear and simple, as all ideas and physical goods are transient and serially developed through the group mind, and there's no way to make a permanent association to ownership over the long term."~Peter Joseph - Origins and Adaptations, Part 1

[Kevin Cox]

There are of course many barriers in a capitalist society, but we can learn these from FOSS as well. Obviously the scientist need money to buy food and whatnot so the people who use the advances will have to realize that and donate to the scientist directly rather then paying via a patent. This is probably the biggest roadblock for open-anything.

[joy chan]

I need some videos telling me how to write paper and make the research, someone can recommend some ？

[victornpb]

Also most scientists lacks social skills

[sandspar]

Got kids yet? You'd be surprised how the view changes...