<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid"><camforum@earthlink.net><director@cambridgeforum.org><zzzhead><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></zzzhead><zzzbody><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cambridge Forum</span></font><br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Release </span> November 2, 2011<br> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">REINVENTING DISCOVERY</span><br><br>On November 9 , 2011, at 7 p.m. Cambridge Forum presents the 2011 Ron Burns Memorial Forum on Science and Technology featuring author <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Nielsen</span>. Nielsen, a pioneer of quantum computing, discusses the need to change the way scientific research is conducted and the way data is handled in the modern scientific era. <br><br>Using the example of the Polymath Project, Nielsen introduces the concept of open science. How has networked technology changed the way scientific problems are solved? How can a research system traditionally based on individual discovery adapt to support collaboration and teamwork?<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Nielsen</span> is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text on quantum computation, which has become one of the ten most highly cited physics books of all time. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2008, he gave up his tenured position and traditional academic career to work full-time on open science.<br><br>This program is co-sponsored by Harvard Book Store. There will be ample time for audience discussion following the presentation. Copies of Reinventing Discovery will be available to purchase and signing.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH. <br></font></font></font></zzzbody><pre>
Cambridge Forum
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
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Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
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