The Rise of Crowd Science

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Alexander S. Szalay is a well-regarded astronomer, but he hasn't peered through a telescope in nearly a decade. Instead, the professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University learned how to write software code, build computer servers, and stitch millions of digital telescope images into a sweeping panorama of the universe. Along the way, thanks to a friendship with a prominent computer scientist, he helped reinvent the way astronomy is studied, guiding it from a largely solo pursuit to a discipline in which sharing is the norm....Crowd Science, as it might be called, is taking hold in several other disciplines, such as biology, and is rising rapidly in oceanography and a range of environmental sciences...."

Link:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rise-of-Crowd-Science/65707/?sid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en

Updated:

06/01/2010, 09:41

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Tags:

oa.biology oa.new oa.data oa.mining oa.crowd oa.astronomy oa.marine oa.environment oa.oceanography

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 18:33

Date published:

06/01/2010, 09:39