REINVENTING DISCOVERY: HOW ONLINE TOOLS ARE TRANSFORMING SCIENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 13000510B39901
English Summary/英文概要： We are in the midst of a major new scientific revolution: the internet is dramatically transforming the way we make discoveries, allowing us to do things ’harder, smarter, faster’. Online collaborations are allowing us to crack a host of previously intractable problems by making it easier and faster to bring together people from different backgrounds and disciplines. And it’s a scientific revolution in which we can all get involved. REINVENTING DISCOVERY is packed with inspiring and entertaining examples of projects that anyone can join: from amateur astronomers who are helping to map the universe, to the rise of open-source software, or the group of amateur chess players who were able to give Garry Kasparov a run for his money. The potential rewards of this new era are extraordinary. The human genome was first mapped just ten years ago and tremendous medical advances have already been made. But the genome was mapped so quickly precisely because scientists agreed that the work was so important that everyone involved should collaborate. However, the vast majority of scientific research is not done in this way: logistical or commercial concerns prevent people from sharing information. Michael argues that this needs to change urgently if we are to reap the full benefits of the internet and offers clear, practical advice on how we can all make sure this happens.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科學巨變的車輪滾滾駛過，互聯網的出現則史無前例得變革了我們的發現方式。 在這場轟轟烈烈的時代變革中，我們收穫了哪些成功的喜悅？又經歷了哪些破繭成蝶前的痛楚？如何真正借助互聯網的力量來為我所用，加快科學發展的步伐？邁克爾•尼爾森帶來完美答案。
我們正處於科學革命巨變的重要時期：互聯網的出現史無前例得變革了我們的發現方式，讓我們處理事情“更確鑿、更明確、更快捷”。連線可以彙聚來自不同背景、不同研究方向的人們的力量，從而更便捷、更容易的解決難題，同時它也讓每一個個體與周圍事物產生了更緊密的關聯性。REINVENTING DISCOVERY中體現了很強的全民參與性，從協助繪製宇宙天體圖的業餘科學家，到開放程式碼軟體的開發，再到一群業餘選手與象棋大師加里•卡斯帕羅夫的一較高下。
這個開創時代的潛在收益自是不可估量。人類基因組十年前剛剛繪製成功，醫學取得了變革性的重大進步。但是基因組的迅速繪製成功卻有賴於科學家們的一個共識，那就是此項研究是如此重要，所以界內任何有志之士都可以聯手加入到此研究行列中來。然而，至今為止還有大多數科學研究不能採用這種方式，諸如邏輯問題或者需要保守秘密的商業問題。邁克爾主張如果想要真正獲益於話聯網這些障礙都亟待解決，在書中還提出了寶貴的建議。(Claire)
Awards/获奖情况：Other rights sold: Italian (Einaudi) ‘The best synthesis I’ve seen of this new kind of science... a delightfully written,
thought-provoking book.’---Carl Zimmer, author of A Planet Of Viruses
‘This is the book on how networks will drive a revolution in scientific discovery;
definitely recommended’---Tyler Cowen, author of The Great Stagnation
‘An unparalleled account of how new tools for collaboration are transforming
scientific practice’---Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody
About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation and quantum information. He was educated at the University of Queensland and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico. He was a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Richard Chace Tolman Prize fellow at the California Institute of Technology, foundation professor of quantum information science at the University of Queensland, and a senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. He left the Perimeter Institute in 2008 to become a full-time writer. He has written numerous articles for the popular science press, including Scientific American and Nature, and runs a popular online blog (http://michaelnielsen.org/blog) which was named by the Sunday Times as one of the top 100 blogs in the world. Some of his blog posts relating to REINVENTING DISCOVERY have been downloaded more than 20,000 times. Michael has also been invited to speak on the topics covered in the book at Google, the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Library of Congress among others. 邁克爾•尼爾森是量子計算和量子資訊的先驅者之一，曾就讀于昆士蘭大學，並獲得過新墨西哥大學富布萊特獎學金。邁克爾還曾經擔任美國洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室研究員，並任昆士蘭大學量子資訊科學教授。2008年邁克爾•尼爾森正式轉型成為一名全職作家，為很多包括《美國科學與自然》（Scientific American and Nature）在內的科普雜誌及報刊供稿。
邁克爾的線上博客（http://michaelnielsen.org/blog），被《星期日泰晤士報》命名為全國百強博客之一，部分有關REINVENTING DISCOVERY的文章下載次數已超過兩萬餘次。另外邁克爾還應邀在穀歌、法蘭克福書展以及美國國會圖書館就本書中所涉及的主題發表了重要演講。
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