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Science Foo Camp

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Science Foo Camp, also known as "Sci Foo", is a series of interdisciplinary scientific conferences organized by O'Reilly Media (FOO stands for "Friends of O'Reilly"), Digital Science, Nature Publishing Group and Google Inc., based on an idea from Linda Stone. [1]

16 relations: Academic conference, Cat Allman, Chatham House Rule, Chris DiBona, Digital Science, Foo Camp, Google, Googleplex, Interdisciplinarity, Linda Stone, Mountain View, California, Nature Publishing Group, O'Reilly Media, Science Hack Day, Tim O'Reilly, Unconference.

Academic conference

An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their work.

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Cat Allman

Cat Allman is a Program Manager in the Open Source Outreach and Making & Science teams at Google and Google lead of Science Foo Camp.

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Chatham House Rule

The Chatham House Rule is a system for holding debates and discussion panels on controversial issues, named after the headquarters of the UK Royal Institute of International Affairs, based in Chatham House, London, where the rule originated in June 1927.

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Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) is the director of open source at Google.

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Digital Science

Digital Science is a technology company with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

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Foo Camp

Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O'Reilly Media.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Googleplex

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California, United States, near Silicon Valley's capital San Jose.

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Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).

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Linda Stone

Linda Stone (born 1955) is a writer and consultant who coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" in 1998.

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Mountain View, California

Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.

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O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics.

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Science Hack Day

Science Hack Day is a Hack Day specifically for “making weird, silly or serious things with science”.

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Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates).

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Unconference

An unconference, also called an Open Space conference, is a participant-driven meeting.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Foo_Camp

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