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The rise of Citizen Cyberscience and its impact on professional research

The rise of Citizen Cyberscience and its impact on professional research. Dr. Miguel Angel Marquina CERN, Switzerland. Another Slant on Open Science Citizens vs Researchers. In Science and Innovation, can ordinary citizens… Co-fund it with their own means? Influence (proactively) its trends?

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The rise of Citizen Cyberscience and its impact on professional research

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  1. The rise of Citizen Cyberscienceand its impact on professional research Dr. Miguel Angel Marquina CERN, Switzerland

  2. Another Slant on Open ScienceCitizens vs Researchers In Science and Innovation, can ordinary citizens… • Co-fund it with their own means? • Influence (proactively) its trends? • Participate (meaningfully) in its progress? Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  3. Assets in the hands of citizens Around the world there are... • 1000-2000 million computers and devices alike (game consoles, intelligent electrical appliances…) • 5000 million mobile, smartphone and tablets – location+imaging enabled in the hands of 7000 million humans Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  4. Science and InnovationTraditional approach • Sizeable infrastructures (R&D sites, labs, universities) • Work developed in teams • Relevance assessed/ranked/approved by restricted bodies of experts • Institutional funding • Direct impact on society may not be a prime directive Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  5. Science and InnovationImagine… What if citizens could contribute… • their computers • their mobile devices • their own brain power to R&D projects? Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  6. Science and Innovation“Citizen” approach • Individual researchers may explore novel ideas without engaging institutional resources • Funding based on attracting volunteers to their cause • Expert assessment shifts to “Selected by popular demand” • Impact on society – citizens drive it Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  7. Citizen CyberscienceVolunteer Computing Contribution: Passive – volunteer’s CPUs Most projects based on an open-source platform called BOINC http://boinc.berkeley.edu

  8. Physics (e.g. CERN) • LHC@homehttp://cern.ch/LHCathome Sixtrack 700 years T4T 44K CPUs • GEANT(4) studies Interactions of particles/radiation with matter Popular code in Medical Physics • GARFIELD – simulation of gas detectors Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  9. Astrophysics • SETI@home http://setiathome.berkeley.edu 9M years 5M clients • Einstein@home http://einsteinathome.org Search for sources of gravitational waves6800 years 137K CPUs(*) 1 CPU = 1 KSfp2K = 2.8 GHz Xeon Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  10. Life Sciences • Predictor@home http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu 1700 years 84K CPUs To predict proteine structure from sequence • Rosetta@homehttp://boinc.bakerlab.org New proteins for cures of human diseases (HIV, malaria, cancer…) • Folding@homehttp://folding.stanford.edu Proteine (mis)folding – degenerative diseases (Alzheimer, Huntington…) Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  11. Geology/Climate • Climateprediction.net http://climateprediction.net 10000 years 115K clients • Climate@home Climate change (variant of above, non-overlapping targets) Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  12. Helping Developing Countries • Africa@home http://cern.ch/africa-at-home/ African humanitarian causes Project kick-off initiated by CERN • Malariacontrol.net http://malariacontrol.net/ Malaria propagation studies (within the framework of Africa@home) • Computing for Clear Water (ref. paper) Water flow through nanotubes – Sponsored by CCC Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  13. Volunteer ComputingAll kinds, all flavours SCIENCE SETI@home (BOINC) evolution@home eOn climateprediction.net (BOINC) Muon1 LHC@home (BOINC) Einstein@Home(BOINC) BBC Climate Change Experiment (BOINC) Leiden Classical (BOINC) QMC@home (BOINC) NanoHive@Home (BOINC) μFluids@Home (BOINC) Spinhenge@home (BOINC) Cosmology@Home (BOINC) PS3GRID (BOINC) Mars Clickworkers LIFE SCIENCES Parabon Computation Folding@home FightAIDS@home Übero Drug Design Optimization Lab (D2OL) The Virtual Laboratory Project Community TSC Predictor@home (BOINC) XGrid@Stanford Human Proteome Folding (WCG) CHRONOS (BOINC) Rosetta@home (BOINC) RALPH@home (BOINC) SIMAP (BOINC) malariacontrol.net (BOINC) Help Defeat Cancer (WCG) TANPAKU (BOINC) Genome Comparison (WCG) Docking@Home (BOINC) proteins@home (BOINC) Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (WCG) MATHEMATICS AND CRYPTOGRAPHY Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search Proth Prime Search ECMNET Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers MM61 Project 3x + 1 Problem Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors PCP@Home Generalized Fermat Prime Search PSearch Seventeen or Bust Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers Goldbach Conjecture Verification The Riesel Problem The 3*2^n-1 Search NFSNET Search for Multifactorial Primes 15k Prime Search ElevenSmooth Riesel Sieve The Prime Sierpinski Project P.I.E.S. - Prime Internet Eisenstein Search Factors of k*2^n±1 XYYXF 12121 Search 2721 Search Operation Billion Digits SIGPS Primesearch Lone Mersenne Hunters Factoring 100 Million digits prefactor project Repdigit Prime Problems Mersenneplustwo Factorizations Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 SZTAKI Desktop Grid (BOINC) Riesel Prime Search Proth Sieve Twin Internet Prime Search Pi Segment Rectilinear Crossing Number (BOINC) ABC@home (BOINC) WEP-M+2 Project (BOINC) distributed.net PrimeGrid (BOINC) M4 HashClash (BOINC) Assault on 13th Labour Free Rainbow Tables IT PERFORMANCE Gómez Performance ($) Network Peer NETI@home dCrawl DIMES Red Library DLV Majestic-12 Boitho PeerFactor DepSpid Pingdom GIGRIB Project Neuron (BOINC) PUZZLES AND GAMES ChessBrain Chess960@home (BOINC) FINANCIAL MoneyBee GStock ART electric sheep Internet Movie Project RenderFarm@Home (BOINC) Source: http://distributedcomputing.info/ Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  14. Citizen CyberscienceVolunteer Information Discovery Contribution: Active - In the field Using GPS+camera-enabled devices for data gathering, mapping, geotagging (often associated to Google Earth)

  15. Information Discovery in ActionCybermappr – http://cybermappr.unige.ch • UNOSAT/UniGe partnership in CCC, sponsored by HP • Used currently for geotagging of regions under humanitarian conflicts/crisis • See Google group “Geotag Libya” http://groups.google.com/group/geotag-libya Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  16. Information Discovery in ActionEpiCollect - http://www.epicollect.net/ Framework for associating information to maps Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  17. Information Discovery in ActionHP Gloe - http://www.hpgloe.com Platform for location-based information discovery Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  18. Citizen CyberscienceVolunteer Thinking Contribution: proactive – volunteer’s ”HPUs” Brain power to its best

  19. Thinking in ActionInnocentive - http://www.innocentive.com Citizen Problem Solving (A.Bingham) Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  20. Thinking in action Galaxy Zoo - http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ Galaxy classification (pattern recognition) Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  21. Thinking in action FoldIt - http://fold.it/portal Protein folding strategies Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  22. Thinking in actionOld Weather - http://www.oldweather.org/ • Source: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/partner-news/old-weather-data-aids-climate-science-one-ship-at-a-time Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  23. Citizen Cyberscience Centrehttp://citizencyberscience.net In essence A network to foster citizen cyberscience worldwide, focus on developing countries An open place for exchange, collaboration A ”Think Tank” lab to explore new cyberscience concepts Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

  24. Arthur C. Clarke2001 : A Space Odyssey “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Role of Citizen Cyberscience… Miguel Angel Marquina

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