REMINDER: Invitation to the ICTP Webinar Colloquium by Paul Ginsparg on "Lessons from arXiv's 30 years of information sharing", TODAY, Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 16:00 hrs CET

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On 06/10/2021 16:05, Infopoint wrote:
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> Dear All,
>
> You are most cordially invited to the ICTP Webinar Colloquium by Paul 
> Ginsparg on "Lessons from arXiv's 30 years of information sharing" 
> TODAY Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 16:00 hrs CET.*
> *
>
> *Pre-registration* is required at the following url:
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> https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQvQ6zwyQfuWiooME68sWA
>
> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email.
>
> *Biosketch: *Paul Ginsparg has been Professor of Physics and 
> Information Science at Cornell University since 2001. He received a 
> B.A. in Physics from Harvard University (1977), and a doctorate in 
> theoretical particle physics from Cornell University (1981). He was in 
> the Society of Fellows at Harvard (1981-1984), then faculty member in 
> the physics department at Harvard University until 1990 and a staff 
> member in the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory 
> from 1990-2001. Professor Ginsparg has authored papers in quantum 
> field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum 
> gravity. While visiting Aspen in the summer of 1991, he started the 
> e-print archives (now arXiv.org). He has served on many committees 
> including the U.S. National Committee for CODATA, other N.R.C., 
> N.A.S., and AAAS committees, the NIH PubMedCentral national advisory 
> board, the American Physical Society publications oversight committee, 
> and the Public Library of Science advisory board. In 1998, he received 
> the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) award from the Special Libraries 
> Association, in 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical 
> Society, in 2002 was named a MacArthur Fellow, in 2005 received the 
> Council of Science Editors (CSE) Award for Meritorious Achievement, in 
> 2006 received the Paul Evans Peters Award from Educause, ARL, and CNI, 
> in 2008 was named a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, in June 2013 was named 
> a "White House Champion of Change", in 2017 received an honorary 
> doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and was the 2020 
> recipient of the Karl T. Compton award for Leadership in Physics.
>
> *Abstract: *arXiv began in the print-only era in 1991. Started at Los 
> Alamos National Laboratory, and known as xxx.lanl.gov until 1998, it 
> was intended to level the global research playing field by providing 
> equal-time access to the latest research results. I will review some 
> of the considerations in its inception and early development, give a 
> very brief sociological overview of the current metastable state of 
> scholarly research communication, and then a technical discussion of 
> the practical implications of literature and usage data considered as 
> computable objects, using arXiv as exemplar.
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> The talk will be followed by a question/answer session.
>
> For info, please check the following link: 
> http://indico.ictp.it/event/9714/
>
> We look forward to seeing you online!
>
> With best regards,
>
> Office of the Director, ICTP
>
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