Academic research practices have remained virtually identical in its conduct and organization over the last few decades. Disparate groups of researchers work on ideas, projects and inventions in isolated clusters, with little sharing of information and synergies from collaboration. However a new shift in paradigm is not only changing how researchers collaborate, but changing the [...]
Stimulus Funding Can Lead to Cyber Infrastructures
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D
The recent announcement by President Obama to dedicate U.S.$5 billion in federal stimulus funding for scientific and other research is a an enormous opportunity for our field. Funding will not only help scientists and researchers to work toward cures and other scientific and scholarly discoveries, but modernize [...]
Enterprise instant messaging applications have started gaining attention from businesses, even though a majority of businesses in Asia Pacific uses consumer instant messaging tools.
Findings of this report are based on Springboard’s interviews with 469 CIOs, IT managers and business managers in over 400 large and SMB enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Malaysia, Philippines [...]
Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City, Taiwan, have announced the creation of the International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology that will facilitate the collaboration of research across three continents and accelerate the development of novel bioengineering, diagnostic and [...]
According to a recent article published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, computational biologists from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer argue that “high-quality, open and accessible data are the foundation of pre-competitive research, and strong public-private partnerships have considerable potential to enhance public data resources, which would benefit everyone engaged in drug discovery.”
“Pharmaceutical companies need to explore [...]
