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
Towards 2020 Science - Microsoft Research
The Centre for Technology Management joined ‘Towards 2020 Science’, an international expert group of distinguished scientists, to facilitate a workshop that was held to debate and consider the role and future of science over the next 14 years. The expert group met for an intense three day workshop, held in Venice during the summer of […]
and the report itself is available for downloading here
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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.htmlMuch good reading here. Don't miss the Nature piece by Alex Szalay and Jim Gray.
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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