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The Crowd and the Cosmos - Adventures in the Zooniverse (Paperback)
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The Crowd and the Cosmos - Adventures in the Zooniverse (Paperback)
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List price R349
Loot Price R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
You Save R32 (9%)
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'fascinating' Brian Cox This is the story of citizen science. Where
once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote
locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge
from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they
receive is overwhelming; projects now being built provide more data
in a few nights than in the whole of humanity's history of
observing the Universe. It's not just astronomy either-dealing with
this deluge of data is the major challenge for scientists at CERN,
and for biologists who use automated cameras to spy on animals in
their natural habitats. Artificial intelligence is one part of the
solution-but will it spell the end of human involvement in
scientific discovery? No, argues Chris Lintott. We humans still
have unique capabilities to bring to bear-our curiosity, our
capacity for wonder, and, most importantly, our capacity for
surprise. It seems that humans and computers working together do
better than computers can on their own. But with so much scientific
data, you need a lot of scientists-a crowd, in fact. Lintott found
such a crowd in the Zooniverse, the web-based project that allows
hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic volunteers to contribute to
science. In this book, Lintott describes the exciting discoveries
that people all over the world have made, from galaxies to pulsars,
exoplanets to moons, and from penguin behaviour to old ship's logs.
This approach builds on a long history of so-called 'citizen
science', given new power by fast internet and distributed data.
Discovery is no longer the remit only of scientists in specialist
labs or academics in ivory towers. It's something we can all take
part in. As Lintott shows, it's a wonderful way to engage with
science, yielding new insights daily. You, too, can help explore
the Universe in your lunch hour.
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