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Reinventing Discovery_ The New Era of Networked Science - Michael Nielsen [138]

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scale of, 203

secrecy in, 87, 184–86

Bayh-Dole Act, 184–85

Benkler, Yochai, 218, 224

Bennett, John Caister, 149

Berges, Aida, 155

Bermuda Agreement, 7, 108, 190, 192, 222

Berners-Lee, Tim, 218

bioinformatics, 108

biology: data-driven intelligence in, 116–19

data web for, 121–22

open source, 48. See also genetics

birdwatchers, 150

black holes, orbiting pair of, 96, 100–101, 103, 112, 114

Blair, Tony, 7, 156

Block, Peter, 218

blogs: architecture of attention and, 42, 56

as basis of Polymath Project, 1–2, 42

invention of, 20

in quantum computing, 187

rumors on, 201–2

scientific, 6, 165–69, 203–4

Borgman, Christine, 218

Boroson, Todd, 100–101, 103, 114

Borucki, William, 201

botany, 107

Brahe, Tycho, 104

brain atlases, 106, 108

British Chiropractic Association, 165–66

Brown, Zacary, 23–24, 27, 35, 41, 223

Burkina Faso, open architecture project in, 46–48

Bush, Vannevar, 217, 218

business: data-driven intelligence for, 112

data sharing methods in, 120. See also markets


cancer, 11

Capra, Baldassare, 174

Cardamone, Carolin, 139–40

Carr, Nicholas, 20, 217

Carter, Jimmy, 23

CASP (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction), 147–48

CD packing problem, 60–63, 64, 74

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 93–94, 95, 112

CERN particle accelerator, 36

cheminformatics, 108

chemistry wiki, 178

Chesbrough, Henry, 219

chess. See freestyle chess; Karpov, Anatoly; Kasparov versus the World

chessboard domino puzzle, 72–73, 75

chess-playing computers, 113–14

chiropractic, 165–67

Christian suppression of early science, 158

citation-mrement-reward cycle, 196–97, 204

citations: of computer code, 196, 204–5

to data, 195

information commons and, 59–60

of original SDSS paper, 101–2

of preprints, 194–96. See also papers, scientific

citizen science, 5–6, 133

in comet hunting, 148–49

community building in, 152–53

contributing roles of, 151

current flowering of, 149, 151

long history of, 148–49, 150

long-term potential of, 151–55

motivations for participation in, 154–55

Open Dinosaur Project, 150–51

passionate commitment of volunteers in, 40

Project eBird, 150

room for improvement in, 152–53

unrealized potential of, 182. See also Foldit; Galaxy Zoo; society

climate, mapping of, 106

climate change: bird populations and, 150

institutional ingenuity and, 171

public policy and, <7204 >157

risks of openness about, 199–200

skeptics about, 199–200

speeding up solution to, 11

Clinton, Bill, 7

cognitive diversity, 31, 32, 41–43, 48, 51

cognitive surplus, 154, 155

cognitive tools, 3. See also online tools

collaboration: in conventional organizations vs. online, 34–37, 39

markets and, 37–39

in mathematics, 2

in offline small groups vs. online, 39–43

summary of, 32–33

time constraints on, 198–99. See also open science; open source approaches; scaling up collaboration

collaboration markets, 85, 86, 87

incentivizing, 196

unrealized potential of, 182

collective action problems, 188–90

collective insight, 66–68, 74

collective intelligence: data-driven intelligence and, 115

limits to, 33, 72–78

potential scientific uses of, 82–87

suitability of science for, 78–82. See also amplifying collective intelligence

Colwell, Robert, 218

combinatorial line, 211

comet hunters, 148–49

comment sites: successful examples of, 234

user-contributed, 179–81

commercialization of science, 87, 184–86

Company of Strangers, The (Seabright), 37

comparative advantage: architecture of attention and, 32, 33, 43, 56

examples from the sciences, 82, 83, 84, 85

for InnoCentive Challenges, 24, 43

modularity and, 56

technical meaning of, 223

competition: data sharing and, 103–4

as obstacle to collaboration, 86

in protein structure prediction, 147–48

for scientific jobs, 8, 9, 178, 186

Complexity Zoo, 233

computer code: in bioinformatics, 108

centralized development of new tools, 236

citation of, 196, 204–5

for complex experiments, 203

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