To add to this (and to provide context to Steve Woolgar's request) here is how the UK's Social Science Research Council construes the relationship between of 'e' and 'social science'. http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/researchfunding/escience.asp And more specifically: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/researchfunding/esciencespec.asp There was a useful discussion led by Steve at the OII/iCS conference already mentioned over whether this stuff is a paradigm shift or just more of the same but faster/bigger/whatever. B -- Dr Ben Anderson +44 (0)7710 187 806 www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/people/ben_anderson.html
From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:19:42 -0400 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] e-science, the grid, and supercomputers
Over on Tribe.net, the head of this area at IBM gave me these urls in response to my enquiry about the grid http://www.ibm.com/grid http:// www.gridforum.org http:// www.gridcomputingplanet.com and http:// http://www.teragrid.org/about/index.html