Tony Hey’s slides on "The Social Grid"

Tony Hey‘s slides on “The Social Grid” are now available (6.5MB PDF). This talk focused on the value of using the Web and its existing, stable technologies to deliver value to eScience. It also encouraged the Grid community to consider modern Web usage patterns and technologies, like “software-as-a-service”, social networking, semantics, as the means to meet the scientist’s requirements in a familiar-to-them manner.

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