It is around 4:30 a.m. here in Bethesda, Maryland and I am sitting at my little netbook and writing this before I tackle the task of packing (uuuuugh) before I head home from my time here at the 2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference. As I often do when at conferences, I reflect on how lucky [...]
Archive for the ‘Open Science’ Category
Multilingual WorldWideScience: Accelerating Scientific Research, Empowering Researchers
July 6, 2010
One of the great pleasures of attending ScienceOnline earlier this year was that I finally got to meet Sol Lederman of the Federated Search Blog. During our chat (which came about via the gentlemanly assistance of Walter Jessen) Sol mentioned that his brother Abe Lederman of Deep Web Technologies was working in conjunction with the [...]
Open Science Summit 2010: A Truly Landmark Event
July 5, 2010
Attention everyone who cares about scientific research in general and Open Science in particular. I have just learned about what is being billed as the First Ever Open Science Summit (kind of presumptuous that given that ScienceOnline has been going strong for several years and Open Science is often discussed there and there have been [...]
The Indispensable Man of Open Science: A Talk with Cameron Neylon
January 28, 2010
Before we begin, Cameron, I’d like to give readers a bit of background as to how I heard of you and why I think it is so important for people interested in topics such as Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, Science 2.0 and important societal trends and Web issues in general to know who you are [...]
The Connector of Open Science: A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider
January 9, 2010
Before we begin, Dr. Williams, I would like to give readers a bit of background on why those of who are not chemists should know who you are and why ChemSpider is important. I came to learn of you as I have been trying, as the saying goes, to “wrap my head around” the concepts [...]
Health 2.0, Personal Genomics and Open Science: A Talk with Shirley Wu of 23andMe
December 17, 2009
Before we begin, Shirley, I’d like to give readers a bit of background as to who you are and why what you are doing is important. Those of us who follow the Open Science movement already know of your activity in FriendFeed on that topic and of your blog, of your doings on Twitter and [...]
