A recent Scholarly Kitchen topic asked the very pertinent question: how to build a sustainable research infrastructure. Actually the subject was less about sustainability than universality; while sustainable is a term full of positive associations, …
How to choose a reviewer for an academic article or a grant proposal? Adam Day raises an interesting idea in his article about peer review, in a recent post on Medium.
He …
One way to explain the current state of AI is to see it as two (or more) opposing views of the world. Strong AI is the goal of creating consciousness in a machine, as measured in the Turing …
I find histories of artificial intelligence very revealing. Computing as an academic discipline is relatively recent, but AI in particular has always been a cross-over subject, something that has been studied by …
Yes, it’s workshop time! This was my first Researcher to Reader conference, and I found the event very enjoyable (even if I had to participate in a workshop, which prevented me from falling asleep, …
The basic principles of an encyclopedia article haven’t changed over time – but the same errors continue to be made. One of the most fundamental principles, which is the same as writing a dictionary entry for a concept, …
Many years ago, at the start of my career in publishing, an old hand told me what, in his opinion, was the only marketing principle …
I’ve been looking at the impressive Cambridge University Institutional Repository, called Apollo. The repository has an wide range of content across several subjects, with over 155,000 items in the collection overall. Clearly the repository is widely used to hold content. …
It is a commonplace that arts and science scholarly writing is different. It’s only when looking regularly at arts and science writing that you begin to see just how different. Some of the differences …
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