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Events
Citizen Cyberscience Workshop
Dates: April 22nd and 23rd, 2013
Location: Université de Genève, Campus Battelle (Route de Drize 7, Carouge), Building D, auditoire D185.
Organizer: Bastien Chopard, Prof. Université de Genève
Format: Lectures + Hands-on Learning + Hackfest
Speakers Prof. François Grey, Distributed Scientific Computing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Coordinator of Citizen Cyberscience Centre, Geneva Dr Daniel Lombrana Gonzalez, Citizen Cyberscience Centre Dr Laure Kloetzer, UNIGE Dr. David Aanensen and Christopher Powell, Imperial College, London Dr. Peter Skands and Dr. Ben Segal, CERN
Description Before there were professional scientists, all scientists were amateurs. But during the 20th century, the role of amateurs rapidly diminished. And with a few notable exceptions in fields like astronomy and archaeology, amateurs have had little chance to make a contribution to cutting-edge research. In the past decade, the Internet has begun to disrupt the 20th century model of professional science. Citizens can now make real contributions to cutting-edge science projects that involve studying everything from pulsars to proteins, using their PCs, laptops or mobile phones. This is an emerging and rapidly evolving trend called citizen cyberscience.
This course introduces in a hands-on way a variety of approaches to doing citizen cyberscience, including volunteer computing, volunteer thinking and volunteer sensing. It explores the contributions and the motivations of the volunteers who participate in such projects, as well as the sort of scientific and social impact that these projects are having. As part of the course, the goal for the students will be to work in teams to design and implement a first prototype of a citizen cyberscience project. This team activity will be based on a hackfest format used successfully by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre in several other contexts.
Detailed Program
Monday 22
9:30 Registration and coffee
10:00: Introduction to Citizen Cyberscience at UNIGE: Bastien Chopard and Christian Pellegrini, UNIGE
10:30: Citizen Science Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Francois Grey, Citizen Cyberscience Centre
11:30: Learning in Citizen Science: Laure Kloetzer, UNIGE
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Epicollect for citizen science on smart phones, Dr. David Aanensen and Christopher Powell, Imperial College, London
15:00 Crowdcrafting for volunteer thinking, Daniel Lombrana Gonzalez, Citizen Cyberscience Centre
16:00 Coffee Break
17:00 CernVM for volunteer cloud computing, Dr. Peter Skands and Dr. Ben Segal, CERN
18:00 End of session
Tuesday 23
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Project pitches by Workshop participants
11:00 Team formation, Planning session
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Project Design and Prototyping
17:30 Project Roundup
18:00 End of Workshop