Reviews for Key Papers in Information Science

The average rating for Key Papers in Information Science based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-08 00:00:00 Tony B Jones This is not a book with anecdotes about the Manhattan Project. You won't get any great stories to tell at a cocktail party. It is mostly about why and where the money goes, and why the Manhattan Project had a major effect on that. It can be powerful knowledge, but a bit dry to read as figures in the billions are trotted out to ask whether "Big Science" is worth it. It was written in 2003 so might be a little out of date. I'm curious to know where science funding has gone in the past decade and whether Big Science is a term still in use, or if that way of doing science has become unfashionable, as this book certainly seems to want it to be.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-08-21 00:00:00 Paul Silano Quickly covers a lot of significant points on scientific discovery, nation-states, military/national security interests and organisations/funding. For those less familiar it does a good job of sparking interest in supercollider research. Particularly interesting was the perhaps unintended commentary on men, competition and complex decisions boiled down to the most basic desires for recognition and superiority.