Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week.
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As for the idea that Big Science is protecting the status quo, well, sure, of course there will be push back when something comes along that defies all known principles.
Since I spilled a bunch of ink on climate change and science denialists recently at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, I thought I might as well take on a few of the other big science vs. anti-science issues.
Those of us concerned about the decaying credibility of Big Science were dismayed to learn that the whistleblower site Science Fraud has been shut down due to a barrage of legal threats against its operator.
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All of which illustrates one of the big problems with climate science: communication.
They are members of the specialized guild of Big Science.
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One can just imagine what he is going through for the sin of trying to shine a light into the dark corners of the guild that controls the flow of money, tenure, prestige, and publications in the insular world of Big Science.
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No conclusive study shows that giving money to people to run for office attracts strong candidates, increases voter turnout, makes races more competitive or reduces the influence of big donors, said political science professor David Primo of the University of Rochester.
The school is strong in Web science, big data and artificial intelligence, making it a good fit for the first deployment of Watson in an academic institution.
The phenomenon of big data is closely tied to the emergence of data science, a discipline that combines math, programming and scientific instinct.
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The leadership of Rensselaer faculty in Web science, Big Data, artificial intelligence, and other research areas uniquely situates the university to help expand Watson's abilities.
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Has the discipline been affected by the rise of data science and big data?
As surprising as this is may be to many laymen, such rigor is now in retreat in the billion-dollar world of Big Science.
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They spend the rest of the year making props for other haunted houses around the country and they throw a big science fiction convention each spring.
Ms Bailyn approvingly notes the recent decision by America's National Science Foundation, which funds a big chunk of the universities' basic research, to allow grant recipients to take a break.
And I want to get into some details about this because I want you, as parents, as well as the educators, to understand what the data and the science and the studies and the research show actually make a big difference in terms of school improvement -- because that's what we are basing this stuff on.
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He was particularly critical of those who relied solely on science for answers to the big questions about life.
There is no doubt that the conference is a great magnet for top big data talent and that it has served well the needs of its audience, hungry for inspiring content on the latest and greatest big data and data science developments.
As it has with new markets ranging from biotechnology to the Internet, government would help to create the underlying policy infrastructure and science that leads to new markets, without spending big money to subsidize the industry itself.
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Although marketing plays a part in that, the science of better eating is a big driver at Unilever.
Researchers there have been offering an insight into how the insect is playing a big part in medical science.
Allen began thinking about a big neuro-science project in the late 1990s, while he was making a flurry of investments in Seattle biotechnology companies.
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The Big Bang Theory is the first title in a planned series on the major theories of modern science.
Having computer science in the EBacc will have a big impact on schools over the next decade.
That is four times as much as the Hubble space telescope, a reasonably big piece of science, churned out in its first two decades.
This might not seem a big deal, but it is the first time science has proved what was hitherto mere speculation: that the brain, when dreaming, behaves like the brain when awake.
Miri will be fixed inside a cage-like structure called the Integrated Science Instrument Module and positioned just behind the big mirror.
Two other big museums, one dedicated to science and the other to sounds and images, are scheduled to open in the coming years.
"What we are doing is the basic science to design these things, like how big should items be, and how they can stop interfering with each other, " explained Professor Brewster.
The Department of Science and Technology in South Africa generously donated IYC Global Experiment kits to the schools that attended the Big Splash as the schools lacked the equipment to conduct the Experiment.
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