ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden speaking at Science 2.0 in Toronto

by vcstodden | August 11, 2009 | workshops and symposia | 1 Comment

On July 26, new ISP fellow Victoria Stodden spoke at the conference “Science 2.0: What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They Work”. The conference was a capstone to a two week tutorial for computational researchers on tools they can use to improve their research. The abstract for Victoria’s talk follows:

How Computational Science is Changing the Scientific Method

As computation becomes more pervasive in scientific research, it seems to have become a mode of discovery in itself, a “third branch” of the scientific method. Greater computation also facilitates transparency in research through the unprecedented ease of communication of the associated code and data, but typically code and data are not made available and we are missing a crucial opportunity to control for error, the central motivation of the scientific method, through reproducibility.  In this talk I explore these two changes to the scientific method and present possible ways to bring reproducibility into today’ scientific endeavor. I propose a licensing structure for all components of the research, called the “Reproducible Research Standard,” to align intellectual property law with longstanding communitarian scientific norms and encourage greater error control and verifiability in computational science.

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