ISP Fellow Presents at ScienceOnline2010
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden presents today at the structured unconference ScienceOnline2010, on Intellectual Property issues faced by scientists who make use of web-based tools, such as database sharing, collaboration, blogging, and other work sharing platforms. Her talk is available here. This is the 4th year for ScienceOnline2010, bringing together scientists, science writers, and other interested [...]
The Edge Annual Question 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
At the end of every year editors at the science and technology website The Edge ask a number of intellectuals to answer a thought-provoking question. This year it was “How is the internet changing the way you think?” Yale ISP fellow Victoria Stodden’s answer is posted here:
http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_15.html#stodden
ISP Fellow Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies – Post 3
The following comments were posted by ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden in response to the OSTP’s call, as announced here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here, asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requested input on Features and Technology (our post is here). For the third and final wave on Management, Chris Wiggins, [...]
ISP Fellow Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government – Post 2
The following comments were posted in response to the second wave of the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here and on the OSTP site here (scroll to the second last comment), asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requests input on Features and Technology and Chris Wiggins [...]
ISP Fellow Submits Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government
The following comments were posted in response to the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf:
Open access to our body of federally funded research, including not only published papers but also any supporting data and code, is imperative, not just for scientific progress but for the integrity of the research itself. We list below nine focus [...]
The Climate Modeling Leak: Code and Data Generating Published Results Must be Shared and Facilitate Reproducibility
On November 20 documents including email and code spanning more than a decade were leaked from the Computing Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in the UK.
The Leak Reveals a Failure of Reproducibility of Computational Results
It appears as though the leak came about through a long battle to get the CRU scientists to [...]
Talk Tomorrow: Open Data and Code in Bioinformatics
I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow afternoon in Mark Gerstein’s group in the Bioinformatics department here at Yale. I’ll be telling the story of this summer’s Toronto round of talks on data release in the genome sequencing community and leading a deeper discussion on what open data and code means for bioinformatics. My working title [...]
Optimal Information Disclosure Levels: Data.gov and “Taleb’s Criticism”
I was listening to the audio recording of last Friday’s “Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making” symposium at the National Academies, and was struck by the earnest effort on the part of members of the Whitehouse to release governmental data to the public. Beth Noveck, Obama’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open [...]
ISP Fellows Present at IP Scholars at Cardozo School of Law
Fellow ISP Fellows Lea Shaver and Victoria Stodden both presented at the annual Intellectual Property Scholars conference on August 6th, at the Benjamin J. Cardozo School of Law. Lea spoke on The Right to Science and Culture and Victoria spoke on Licensing Academic Research: Legal Attribution and Academic Citation.
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden speaking at Science 2.0 in Toronto
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 [...]









