Articles in: Francois Grey

A hackfest by any other name

April 2, 2011

For the last couple of years, I’ve helped to run workshops in Taipei with Academia Sinica and in Beijing with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the topic of citizen cyberscience. These…

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  • Tags: academia sinica, chinese academy of sciences, Citizen, collaboration with mozilla foundation, home,

Myth #3: Nobody will be interested in my science

March 8, 2011

The third of the “urban myths of citizen cyberscience” that I want to debunk is one that I have a lot of sympathy with. “Nobody will be interested in my science” might seem…

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  • Tags: accelerator physicists, hadron collider, proton beams

Myth #2 and the Large Hadron Collider

February 26, 2011

In my last post, I argued that the range of problems which can be tackled with volunteer computing is expanding in lockstep with the exponential improvements of the Internet. This was in the context…

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  • Tags: large hadron collider, particle collider, proton collisions

Myth #2 Citizen cyberscience won’t work for my science

February 25, 2011

While I am clearly a fan of citizen cyberscience, I would not for an instant pretend that it is some sort of scientific panacea. There are lots of problems where it is irrelevant or inapplicable. But…

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  • Tags: cyberscience, leaps and bounds, myth 2

Myth #1: citizen cyberscience doesn’t produce real science

February 24, 2011

In my last post I listed “seven urban myths of citizen cyberscience” and promised to expand on these in the coming posts. Each myth has its origins in the surprisingly sceptical reactions…

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  • Tags: Citizen, citizen science, double whammy, litmus test, Myth, reaction

The seven urban myths of citizen cyberscience

February 23, 2011

If you give scientists a free lunch, they’ll eat it. So if you offer them free resources in abundance for their research, they ought to gobble up that opportunity, too. Or so you would…

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  • Tags: citizen support, seven habits of highly effective people, urban myths

The first 100 days

December 6, 2010

I am now almost exactly 100 days into my Shuttleworth Fellowship. The day after I started the fellowship, on 2 September, a team of us organized a first London Citizen Cyberscience Summit. Talk about…

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The first 100 days

December 6, 2010

I am now almost exactly 100 days into my Shuttleworth Fellowship. The day after I started the fellowship, on 2 September, a team of us organized a first London Citizen Cyberscience Summit. Talk about…

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>1 Chinese/second

October 18, 2010

The number of Chinese connecting to the Internet over the last few years has been phenomenal. According to official statistics published by the China Internet Network Information Centre, the number…

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  • Tags: china internet network, chinese internet users, world community grid

Why do I blog?

October 12, 2010

The short answer to this question is that I promised Helen, Karen, Karien and Wendy that I would. The longer answer is that since September 1st, I am a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, which is…

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  • Tags: dynamic team, experiment, Fellow, Karien, , open source community

Why a billion brains?

September 15, 2010

This is my first post on the Billion Brain Blog, so a few words of explanation about the name of the blog are in order. This blog is about my views on citizen cyberscience, that is to say all sorts…

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  • Tags: brain power, Citizen, cyberscience, post, web citizen