Scholarly E-Science at Stellenbosch

Via Panlibus I saw a report of an interesting presentation by Tony Hey

Dr Tony Hey Corporate vice President for Technical Computing, Microsoft - E-Science and Scholarly Communication

• e-Science all about global collaboration
• On verge of new paradigm - e-science or Data-centric science
• e-Science is a shorthand for a set of technologies to support collaborative networked data-driven  collaboration
• Huge amounts of data a problem for the scientists
• Send the calculations to the data
• Researching Publications - expose how ranking achieved (reputation/specialization/etc.) - live documents (RSS) formalized ratings

I just checked and all the Stellenbosch 2006 presentations are now online.

Check out E-Science and Scholarly Communication (PowerPoint).

There are also lots of other good ones, but E-Science is on of my main current interests.