Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science is a book written by Michael Nielsen and released in October 2011. It argues for the benefits of applying the philosophy of open science to research.
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| Author | Michael Nielsen |
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| Subject | Open science |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 978-0-691-14890-8 |
Summary
editThe following is a list of major topics in the book's chapters.
- Reinventing Discovery
- Online Tools Make Us Smarter
- Kasparov versus the World, The Wisdom of Crowds, various online collaborative projects
- Restructuring Expert Attention
- InnoCentive, collective intelligence, Paul Seabright's economic theory, online chat
- Patterns of Online Collaboration
- History of Linux, Open Architecture Network, Wikipedia, MathWorks' computer programming contest
- The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence
- communication in small groups, particularly as studied by Stasser and Titus; praxis of science; a discussion of communication among scientists
- All the World's Knowledge
- Don R. Swanson and Literature-based discovery, predicting influenza with Google searches, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Ocean Observatories Initiative, Human Genome Project, Google Translate, playchess.com Tournaments
- Democratizing Science
- The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open
- The Open Science Imperative
- appendix - The problem solved by the Polymath Project
Reviews
editTimo Hannay's review in Nature said that in this book Nielsen gives "the most compelling and comprehensive case so far for a new approach to science in the Internet age".[1]
The Financial Times review said that the book was "the most compelling manifesto yet for the transformative power of networked science".[2]
References
edit- ^ Hannay, T. (2011). "A new kind of science?". Nature Physics. 7 (10): 742. Bibcode:2011NatPh...7..742H. doi:10.1038/nphys2109.
- ^ Wilsdon, James (28 October 2011). "Reinventing Discovery". Financial Times. Retrieved 9 January 2012.