Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible

Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-qualit... by dalke on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:39PM (#10269003)

Of course we can't discount them. My own field of research, chemical information as it applies to pharmaceutical research, is dominated by industry.

Given that collyw works in a bioinformatics organization, my underlying question was why collyw discounted all of the cutting edge technology coming out of academic bioinformatics research.

I could also have pointed out, say, cutting edge techniques in photochemistry for arene C-H amination, which came from a university (see http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1326 ).

By limiting "tech" to those areas of software where Google and Microsoft have a strong business interest, then of course they will have a strong presence. I wanted to highlight that possible bias.

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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-qualit... by collyw on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:59AM (#10271314)

Illumina is coming up with most of the technology making the bioinformatics research possible. The bioinformaticians are generally running perl or python scripts on the data, not coming up with new technology.

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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-qualit... by dalke on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:49AM (#10271530)

I don't understand what this is supposed to mean.

New methods of analyzing data, which can be implemented as a script, is also new technology. But it sounds like you are excluding it as a possibility.

Again, what do you call "tech"?

Intel provides most of the CPUs that Google, Microsoft, etc. use. Can't I be equally dismissive and say that Intel provides the tech and Google/MS merely run programs on top of it?

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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-qualit... by collyw on Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:23PM (#10274424)

I would say that what you are describing is research not tech. But yes when I originally posted I meant IT (though someone on here told me that term sounded very dated).

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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-qualit... by dalke on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:25PM (#10275499)

Then yes, there's more new IT coming out of IT companies than from research universities.

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