[Asis-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] 2020 Science -- Microsoft Report and Nature Issue

[Richard Hill]

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Richard Hill
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Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] 2020 Science -- Microsoft Report and Nature
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Microsoft Research has issued a report on the practice of science in
2020 that emphasizes the growing role of information technology,
e-science and related developments. You can find information about
the report here

http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/background_overview.htm

and the report itself is available for downloading here

http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/downloads.htm

In conjunction with this, the journal Nature has done a special issue
on computing and science in 2020; all the articles in this appear to
be open access, and the table of contents can be found here:

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html



Much good reading here. Don't miss the Nature piece by Alex Szalay
and Jim Gray.




Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI




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