eScience and open access are really taking off now globally, according to Tony Hey

"At the Third eScience Symposium, recently held at the ArenA in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,Primeur Magazinehad the opportunity to talk with Tony Hey from the eScience Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle about eScience and the fourth paradigm for scientific discovery. Before that, Tony Hey has been leading the UK's eScience programme and between 2005 and 2015, he has ten years with Microsoft Research, directing their external research activities and doing eScience in Microsoft with Jim Gray. Together, they wrote a book titled 'The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery'. In 2015, Tony Hey has been having a sabbatical at the University of Washington's eScience Center. They have some very interesting activities there, so it has been a very interesting time in the spades for Tony Hey ..."