Big Data, Citizen Science and the Death of the University by Roger Malina As Michael Punt mentions in his editorial in this issue of L|R|Q, a number of commentators have been recently discussing the topic of “big data”, noting the transition that many disciplines are seeing from an age of data scarcity to an age [...]
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Editorial: L|R|Q – Leonardo Reviews Quarterly, No. 2
29 December 2010, 10:39 pm
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Tagged Art, Daniel Boorstin, data, Leonardo, Leonardo Reviews, LRQ, Roger Malina, Science, Technology, University, World Space Congress
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Now online: What is a Climate Artist?
14 November 2010, 6:26 pm
Presentation from the Lovely Weather Art and Climate Change Conference in Letterkenney is here.
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Tagged Anthony Lyons, Art, Astronomy, Climate, Climate Artist, Complexity, Conference, data, Donna Cox, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, L'Iméra, Leonardo, Letterkenny, Lovely Weather Project, Marseille, Open Observatory, Peter d'Agostino, Peter Richards, Roger Malina, Ruth West, Science, Scott Gresham Lancaster, Technology
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Abstract: Making Reality Really Real Conference
23 August 2010, 3:17 pm
Consciousness Reframed 11 | Trondheim, November 4-6, 2010, More information Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, Quintessence, Data: The Art and Science of Data Gathering in Moist Reality Roger F Malina Director Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence We live in the petabyte era, with instruments everywhere generating large and growing volumes of data. Many of these instruments [...]
The Impact of Computers on the Arts, Sciences and Humanities
23 March 2010, 5:58 pm
Abstract : Intimate Science and the End of Theory in Astronomy Modern astronomy has been transformed by the computer sciences in a number of ways. Large computerized instruments now collect almost all our information about the universe. This data is deposited into large databases called Virtual Observatories. This data, unlike photographic plates in general, is [...]
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Tagged Arts, Berkeley Open Infrastructure Consortium, BOIC, Climate Modeling, Colin Norman, Complex Systems Cosmology, computer sciences, Computers, data, data bases, evolution, Humanites, Imera, Malaria, Mathematics, photographic plates, Roger Malina, Sciences, Scientific hypotheses, Scientific visualization, Simulation techniques, Technology, virtual observatories
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