| Syllabus / Citizen-Cyberscience-F12

Lecturer

Francois Grey
email:francois.grey(at)cern.ch
twitter:@FrancoisGrey

Time & Place

At ITP on Mondays 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Room 447 (Classroom 50)
Classwork
Online version at Peer-2-Peer University

Partners

Beijing: Centre for Nano and Micro Mechanics (CNMM), Tsinghua University,
Geneva: Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC) CERN, UN Institute for Training and Research and University of Geneva
Paris: Interdisciplinary Research Centre (CRI), Universite Paris Descartes

Topics

Short Summary

The rise of modern science and the demise of the amateur
The rise of open science and the demise of the expert
Volunteer computing: putting your processor to work for science
Volunteer thinking: science as a hobby, a game or a social network
Volunteer sensing: your mobile phone as a roving laboratory
What’s out there? Tracking the latest trends in citizen cyberscience.
Who’s out there? Getting in touch with the volunteers.
Meet the scientists: exploring cutting-edge research at NYU and beyond.
Meet the developers: introducing platforms for citizen cyberscience.
Project definition phase
Project development phase
Project deployment phase (alpha test)
Scientist and volunteer feedback assessment
Documentation and future development roadmap

Material (slides/video)

10 September:

Slides for FG Introduction

Slides for Guest Lecture by Yiqun Wang

Slides for Guest Lecture by Javier de la Torre (Part 1) and (Part 2)

17 September:

Slides for FG Project Discussion

Slides for Guest Lecture by John Schimmel

Slides for Guest Lecture by Leif Percifield

24 September:

Slides for FG Rise of Modern Science

Slides for Guest Lecture by Sarah Kaufman

Slides for Guest Lecture by Joel Natividad

Office Hours

At ITP Tuesdays 9am-1pm or just drop in (Room 455)

Projects & Hackfest

Project Etherpad
Hackfest Announcement (2-4 November)

Textbook

Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen (Princeton University Press 2012).

Guest Lectures & Hackfest

10 September:

10:30 Javier de la Torre, Vizzuality / How to make a compelling citizen cyberscience project

11:15 Yiqun Wang, equn.com / Citizen cyberscience in China

17 September:

10:30 John Schimmel, NYU ITP / Crowdsourcing community accessibility

11:15 Leif Percifield, Parsons / Monitoring waste water with dontflush.me

24 September:

10:30 Sarah Kaufman, NYU Wagner / Open data and government

11:15 Joel Natividad, Ontodia / Pediacities, Crowdknowing and Big Open Data

1 October:

10:30 Vijay Modi, Earth Institute, Columbia U / New York City energy mapping project

11:15 Eric Rosenthal, NYU ITP / Second hand smoke detection

8 October:

10:30 Frank Hebbert, Openplans / Crowdsourcing transport information

11:15 Anthony Townsend, Institute for the Future / impact of urban data on the poor

22 October:

10:30 Steven Koonin, NYU CUSP / big data and urban science

11:15 Oded Nov, NYU Poly / What motivates citizen cyberscientists?

29 October:

10:30 Panos Ipeirotis, NYU Stern / crowdsourcing for data mining

11:15 Kelly Henning, Bloomberg Foundation / public health and urban science

5 November:

10:30 Yasser Ansari, Project Noah / Citizens tracking urban wildlife

11:15 Matt Blumberg, Grid Republic / Why isn't everyone doing citizen cyberscience?