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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Should I sign the Research Without Walls pledge?
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011Why most published research findings are false
Thursday, April 7th, 2011In detail at PLoS Medicine, and in brief at xkcd.
Recommendations for Independent Scholarly Publication of Data Sets
Sunday, June 27th, 2010- Jonathan Rees’s Recommendations for Independent Scholarly Publication of Data Sets are available from the Science Common’s reading room [1]
eigenfactor.org
Sunday, February 8th, 2009eigenfactor.org is a free source to search for influential journals in a specific research field. It provides lists ranked by influence based on citation analysis, similar to but different in detail from ISI’s impact factor (see Impact Factor and Citation Index on Wikipedia).
Here are direct links to some specific areas:
COMPUTER IMAGING,
MEDICAL IMAGING,
COMPUTER SCIENCE,
FLUID MECHANICS,
MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY,
NEUROSCIENCE.
Amdahl’s Law in the Multicore Era
Sunday, February 8th, 2009This Google tech talk presentation by Mark D. Hill is very worthwhile to watch. Based on a few fundamental assumptions, Hill develops an extended version of Amdahl’s Laws and discusses whether processor designers should focus on improving the performance of single cores or on increasing the number of cores. He concludes that they should do both.
CT-Reconstruction With 8 GPUs
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Slashdot links to an article on DV Hardware that presents work by the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp on GPU-based CT-reconstruction. The researchers gave their “desktop supercomputer” the name FASTRA. Watching their official movie on YouTube, I recognized around 3:30 that they might be using our software Amira for visualizing their “test patient” Bob.
Slashdot: Physics Journal May Reconsider Wikipedia Ban
Saturday, March 15th, 2008A Slashdot post reports that Physical Review Letters (PRL) will reconsider its copyright policy, which currently does not allow authors to submit material to Wikipedia that is based on their published work. This happens after Jonathan Oppenheim and co-authors asked for a modified right agreement that would allow them to contribute to Wikipedia. Instead of agreeing, PRL withdrew acceptance of two articles. After protests against this decision, PRL plans to review its copyright policy at a meeting in May.
Storing Scientific Data at Google?
Sunday, January 20th, 2008A post on Slashdot reports that Google will soon offer free storage for massive scientific data on http://research.google.com/. Alexis Madrigal mentions more details in a post on Wired. Pimm’s post on the same topic displays the device to send data on slide 10/16. Google seems to plan to collect data by shipping hard drives.
Maybe I’ll try with the 8 GByte micro-CT data set of a human vertebral body, which we published in 2005. Or is is too small for Google?