Editor's Introduction for Science and Public Controversy Focussed Discussion

Science as a Service [Guest editors' introduction]

Introduction: medical science, moral controversy, and legal change.

Data Mining: From Serendipity to Science - Guest Editors' Introduction

34 Computer I n his novel, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, John Barth writes “you don’t reach Serendip by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.” This is perhaps an apt description of the discovery process carried out to query large-scale data repositories. Specifically, if we knew what to look for, the proce...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction