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IISSQI08

Published by davinci on September 25, 2008 in academic meetings. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Quite appropriately, given the theme of science transcending boundaries, I’m actually writing this from Kish (کیش) island, Iran, in the Persian Gulf, where I am attending the International Iran Summer School on Quantum Information 2008 (IISSQI08). The summer school is a follow-up to the International Iran Conference on Quantum Information (IICQI07) which took place last year, also on Kish island. The reason that both events have been held here is that scientists from some countries have problems getting visas to enter mainland Iran, and conversely, citizens of Iran have problems visiting certain countries. Kish island is a “free zone” and hence the most logistically convenient place for both sides to meet.

Barry Sanders, iCORE Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary and one of the organizers, … » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Open notebook science

Published by davinci on September 25, 2008 in open notebook science. 1 Comment Tags: .

Science is one of the noblest and most sublime of human endeavours, transcending the distinctions of nationality, language, culture, race, gender, religion, political affiliation, or any number of other ways in which we human beings categorise ourselves. Science is universal. While not everyone has access to particle accelerators or other instruments of science, anyone can aspire to increase human knowledge and better our understanding of the world within his or her own means.

This blog and this website are my contributions to the open notebook science movement. I strongly believe that modern communication technologies will dramatically change (and in fact have already been dramatically changing) the way science is done and disseminated. Many more people have access to scientific information than ever before, and at the same time, science policy at the highest levels of government have the potential to affect the lives of everyone in the world. Science is no longer the enterprise of an elite few, but the common heritage and responsibility of every person on the planet — and we can no longer afford for it not to be open.

– davinci

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