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Nielsen, Michael

 
9780691160191: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691160198 ISBN 13 : 9780691160191
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2013

Synopsis

How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discovery

In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we understand the world.

Reinventing Discovery tells the exciting story of an unprecedented new era of networked science. We learn, for example, how mathematicians in the Polymath Project are spontaneously coming together to collaborate online, tackling and rapidly demolishing previously unsolved problems. We learn how 250,000 amateur astronomers are working together in a project called Galaxy Zoo to understand the large-scale structure of the Universe, and how they are making astonishing discoveries, including an entirely new kind of galaxy. These efforts are just a small part of the larger story told in this book-the story of how scientists are using the internet to dramatically expand our problem-solving ability and increase our combined brainpower.

This is a book for anyone who wants to understand how the online world is revolutionizing scientific discovery today-and why the revolution is just beginning.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computing. He is an essayist, speaker, and advocate of open science. He lives in Toronto.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691160198
ISBN 13 
9780691160191
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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