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Doing science online – Michael Nielsen

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This post is the text for an invited after-dinner talk about doing science online, given at the banquet for the Quantum Information Processing 2009 conference, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 12-16, 2009. Good evening. Let me start with a few questions. How many people here tonight know what a blog is? How many people read blogs, say once every week or so, or more often? How many people actually run a blog themselves, or have contributed to one? How many people read blogs, but won’t admit it in polite company? Let me show you an example of a blog. It’s a blog called What’s New, run by UCLA mathematician Terence Tao. Tao, as many of you are probably aware, is a Fields-Medal winning mathematician. He’s known for solving many important mathematical problems, but is perhaps best known as the co-discover of the Green-Tao theorem, which proved the existence of arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes. Tao is also a prolific blogger, writing, for example, 118 blog posts in 200

This post is the text for an invited after-dinner talk about doing science online, given at the banquet for the Quantum Information Processing 2009 conference, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 12-16, 2009. Good evening. Let me start with a few questions. How many people here tonight know what a blog is? How many people read blogs, say once every week or so, or more often? How many people actually run a blog themselves, or have contributed to one? How many people read blogs, but won’t admit it in polite company? Let me show you an example of a blog. It’s a blog called What&#821

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