Science for computers

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

The brief item below (boxed and unboxed) just appeared on 
Slashdot.  Someone smarter than me, who is more punctilious about 
grammar, is going to have to figure out if this will work, but it 
is becoming apparent to me that the splitting of human- and 
machine-readable rights for licensing is inevitable.

I should add that I would love to have a screen name like 
"holy-calamity".

Joe Esposito

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| Making Science Machine Readable                                    |
|   from the connect-the-dots dept.                                  |
|   posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 07, @11:19 (Software)  |
|   http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/07/1442221      |
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holy_calamity writes "New Scientist is reporting on a new open 
source tool for writing up scientific experiments [0]for 
computers, not humans. Called [1]EXPO, it avoids the many 
problems computers have with natural language, and can be applied 
to any experiment, from physics to biology. It could at last let 
computers do real science - looking at published results and 
theories for new links and directions."