In 2008, Michael Nielsen gave up his tenured position to work fulltime on open science.
Today, we will have Michael Nielsen speaking about Open Science via Skype video at the Science and Technology Park, University Campus in Rijeka, Croatia. We have invited students to join the debate.
Nielsen explains what he will discuss:
“The internet is causing a radical change in how science is done. In this talk I’ll describe how mass online collaborations are being used
to prove mathematical theorems; how online markets are allowing scientific problems to be outsourced; and how online citizen science
projects are enabling amateurs to make scientific discoveries. These and other projects show how we can use online tools to amplify our collective intelligence, and so extend our scientific problem-solving ability. This promise is only part of the story, however, for today there are many cultural barriers inhibiting scientists from using online tools to their full potential. I will discuss these cultural barriers, and how they can be overcome.”
Michael Nielsen is an author and an advocate of open science. His book about open science, Reinventing Discovery, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2011. Prior to his book, Michael was an internationally known scientist who helped pioneer the field of quantum computation. He co-authored the standard text in the field, and wrote more than 50 scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His work on quantum teleportation was recognized in Science Magazine’s list of the Top Ten Breakthroughs of 1998. Michael was educated at the University of Queensland, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2008, he gave up his tenured position to
work fulltime on open science.
We invite you to read his essays focusing on the themes such as:
- The Future of Science
- Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
- Science beyond individual understanding
We will upload the Skype video after the event and provide a summary of the debate. We are definitely looking forward to asking Michael Nielsen some important questions.
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