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About SciFoo
Sci Foo is an annual, interdisciplinary, invitation-only scientific 'unconference' organized by Nature Publishing Group, Google and O'Reilly Media.
Sci Foo '08 was held on August 8th - 10th, 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.
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Digital Analysis of Music as a Cultural Artifact - Armand Leroi discusses current efforts to catalog and
analyze traditional music. Leroi builds upon to previous work of an
ethnomusicologist named Alan Lomax, and uses digital technology to
analyze music as a cultural artifact. He discusses the eleven
cantographic clusters of music and how cantographic data relates to
evolutionary biology.
Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo
2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O'Brien.
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Michael Nielsen discusses science and sharing in the context of open
source science. What needs to be done to encourage (or require)
scientists to participate in open source science? What sort of
incentives do scientists need to participate in open research and open
science?
Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo
2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O'Brien.
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Victoria Stodden discusses her efforts to create a new license for scientific research which covers both publication and data. She discusses the motivations behind the new license and the issues brought up by releasing scientific research and data under and open source license.
Copyright 2008 O’Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O’Brien.
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Terrafugia's 'Transition', the "roadable light aircraft" at SciFoo
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"One of the interesting concept that emerged during SciFoo... is the idea of the distributed Open Notebook science..."
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Another great set of SciFoo photos from Bob Lee
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"Brian Marlow, science comedian and writer of the Zero Gravity science blog, was at SciFoo. As much as I enjoyed all the other sessions given by the biggest and most influential brains, this was the only session that almost made me pee myself. Here’s a clip of Brian in action."
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"Having just touched down in London from SciFoo 2008, I stare, tinged with jetlag, at the blank page and wonder how anyone could adequately summarize a get-together so bizarrely wonderful."
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"breakfast with professor from Alberta [Selma Guigard] working on a better method for stripping the carbon from the tar sands..."
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Notes on Ed Lu's talk at SciFoo
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"Like last year there was a lot of discussion about Open Science but it seemed that this year there was more focus on the positive and actually getting things done."
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"Probably the BEST presentation I have seen on climate change and energy EVER."
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"I think my favorite three-word self summary (and I didn't catch who said it) was "Think, play, repeat." That seems to be what we're planning to do here this weekend."
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"I'm at scifoo (Nature/O'Reilly/Google Science Foo Camp) and yesterday heard a talk about the Large Hadron Collider that will go live in a few weeks - and had a disturbing thought. Odds are very good that within the next few years we will see news articles where bigshot physicists say a new LHC result vindicates a theory they've been pushing. But today there are no public predictions by high-profile physicists stated precisely enough to be clearly scored for accuracy!"
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Brilliant cartoons depicting pre-SciFoo anxiety
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"But last years Scifoo -- it was hands down the most intriguing, interesting, and worthwhile meeting I have ever been to. Needless to say I was pretty happy to get invited back --- and have been eagerly awaiting this for months."
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"Astrophysicists Angelica de Oliveira-Costa and Max Tegmark get here later this morning. Fortunately, even astro-visionaries like Max don’t need to pack any universe inside their suitcases to lead a session. The universe just plain follows them around."
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"SciFoo here I come and, as Erdős would have said, my brain is open."
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"After a couple minutes of conversation, I turned to Larry, sitting on my right and said “So Larry, what is your line of work” or something to that effect. To which he replies “I started Google”. Come again, please (a lot of brits in the crowd)? And everyone else is staring at me like I just crawled out from under a rock. How was I supposed to know that Larry Page is a household name? I guess I should have done my Scifoo homework…"
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"an overflow SciFoo crowd showed up in Google’s “Damascus” room (seats 22) to hear Tim O’Reilly’s own explanation of Web 2.0, followed by stellar short talks by Esther Dyson (EDventure), Chris Anderson (Wired), Barend Mons (WikiProfessional), and Victoria Stodden (Harvard’s Berkman Center)."
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"I'm weekending at the Scifoo camp inside the Googleplex, Silicon Valley. Geeks, Nobel laureates, Astronauts and hangers-on have gathered at science's bleeding edge to share their thoughts with no agenda, no hierarchy and ridiculous amounts of food."
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"the most amazing couple of hours where every SciFoo Camper introduced him/herself, their affiliation and three words/phrases which they felt described their interests... Picture a room full of 200 of the brightest minds in (and around) science, and hearing each say the three most compelling things they can think of to describe their work."
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Photos from SciFoo 2008
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"we want to sell carbon and sugar bundles"
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I love this place. Alongside Jane Lubchenco, I ran a session on a new social contract for science, looking at the politics of science and the potential for a new breed of citizen scientists....Pitching into the discussion were Phil Campbell, Martin Rees, Paul Rabinow and Steve Schneider....My excitement and confusion has only been compounded by the discovery of free ice cream. If you asked a seven-year-old to design a conference, this is what they would come up with.
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"Here, the sessions are all one hour, and there's either one or a few people who give a brief talk (with or without slides) followed by an extended discussion. It works very well - I haven't witnesses a single instant of somebody trying to show off with some unrelated explanation nobody was interested in. A lot of people add experiences from other fields. There is a substantial amount of science meta-talk here, i.e. questions of how science works, or how its relation is to the public. Some people have brought demos like science toys and there's some interesting looking sports cars in the yard, plus a car with wings, no seriously (see terrafugia.com). Being here is as exciting as inspiring."
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"Today, I had the opportunity to talk with Charles at Science Foo Camp, a mind-blowing "unconference" of scientists, big thinkers, and other people much smarter than I, hosted by O'Reilly Media, Nature Publishing, and Google."
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Every year Edge publishes a Summer Postcards edition. For the 2007 edition, here are photos (mine and those of other Edge contributors) from SciFoo Camp—the unclassifiable O'Reilly/Nature/Google meeting of the minds now in its second year. —George Dyson
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"The biggie this week is, of course, SciFoo, the third iteration of the most amazing meeting of scientists, techies and other interesting people who tend to think outside the box. I never hid my disappointment that my last year's participation did not lead to a repeat invitation this year. Perhaps next year...."
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