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Science 2.0: July 29, 2009 1pm-6pm MaRS

Posted on July 26th, 2009 by Sacha Chua

What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They Work

The MaRS Centre, 101 College St, Toronto (http://www.marsdd.com/)
Wednesday July 29, 1:00-6:00pm, with wine and cheese to follow
Registration: This event is free and open to the public, but you must register (http://science20.eventbrite.com/).

Talks:

Choosing Infrastructure and Testing Tools for Scientific Software Projects
Titus Brown (http://ivory.idyll.org/blog)

A Web Native Research Record: Applying the Best of the Web to the Lab Notebook
Cameron Neylon (http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen)

Doing Science in the Open: How Online Tools are Changing Scientific Discovery
Michael Nielsen (http://michaelnielsen.org/blog)

Using ”Desktop” Languages for Big Problems
David Rich (http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/

How Computational Science is Changing the Scientific Method
Victoria Stodden (http://www.stodden.net/)

Collaborative Curation of Public Events
Jon Udell (http://www.jonudell.net/)

See http://softwarecarpentry.wordpress.com/guests/ for full details, or http://science20.eventbrite.com/ to register.

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