Author: victorhenning
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Worst. Result. Ever. Brilliant!
By chance, I stumbled across One Big Lab yesterday, a very interesting blog on Open Science maintained by (as far as I can tell) four Stanford bioinformatics Ph.D. students. One of the many gems to be discovered there is a series of t-shirt designs called “Worst. Result. Ever.”: You’ve been there, done that. Spent hours,…
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Martin Varsavsky, a "Last.fm for research", and more exciting news
Wow, entrepreneurial icon Martin Varsavsky wrote something nice about Mendeley on his blog last night! We immediately noticed a traffic spike and a sudden number of beta test requests rolling in. Thank you, Martin! We met Martin a while ago at an entrepreneurs’ conference and grabbed the chance to tap into his wisdom. At age…
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Sciences and Humanities, together at last?
A few days ago, there was an interesting story in the NY Times about new curriculum at Binghamton University which will try to bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities. I meant to write about it on this blog, but didn’t find the time. Now I’ve read a reply which perfectly and concisely…
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Lunch subsidy keeps Mendeley founders going
Yesterday, we were visited by old friends from our days at the Bauhaus-University. Ben and Emanuel, who studied with Paul, were in town for a business trip. They generously invited us to a Fish & Chips lunch – thanks guys! Ben and Emanuel are start-up founders, too: Their company VIOSO is developing an impressive technique…
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Getting feedback on our work
We had a very distinguished visitor at our office yesterday! Prof. Bill Fitzgerald, who heads the Signal Processing Lab at the University of Cambridge, dropped by. For me, that’s one of the nicest things about working for Mendeley – we get to meet brilliant people who do research on the most fascinating of topics. Bill,…
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