Open Sourcing Science was the theme for TEDxPrincetonLibrary's second salon. Our featured speaker was computation pioneer Michael Nielsen, who is highly regarded as an essayist, speaker, and advocate of open science, and is the author of the recently published Reinventing Discovery. During this salon we examined how the online world is revolutionizing scientific discovery today--and why the revolution is just beginning. Chris Leyon also spoke at this salon about Linux and the Open Source movement in the world of software.

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Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text on quantum computation. This is the most highly cited physics publication of the last 25 years, and one of the ten most highly cited physics books of all time (Source: Google Scholar, December 2007). He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His research contributions include the majorization theorem governing the manipulation of entangled quantum states, involvement in one of the first quantum teleportation experiments, named as one of Science Magazine’s Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year for 1998, quantum gate teleportation, quantum process tomography, and critical contributions to the formula for the quantum channel capacity

Chris Leyon

Chris has worked as a professional programmer for over twenty years. He first started using free and open source software in the mid-1980s by installing programs published on Usenet onto his university's VAX. In 1995 he downloaded an early version of Slackware GNU/Linux to approximately 50 floppy disks and has been using Linux in one form or another ever since. He is currently active with the Linux Users Group in Princeton.