Discovery Informatics: Science Challenges for Intelligent Systems by Erwin Gianchandani.
From the post:
This past February in Arlington, VA, Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute) and Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University) co-organized a workshop on discovery informatics, assembling over 50 participants from academia, industry, and government “to investigate the opportunities that scientific discoveries present to information sciences and intelligent systems as a new area of research called discovery informatics.” A report summarizing the key themes that emerged during discussions at that workshop is now available.
From the workshop homepage:
What is Discovery Informatics?
Discovery Informatics focuses on computing advances aimed at identifying scientific discovery processes that require knowledge assimilation and reasoning, and applying principles of intelligent computing and information systems in order to understand, automate, improve, and innovate any aspects of those processes.
No surprise that I think we need to focus on the human aspects of computing and information systems.
It isn’t like our machines are going to come up with interesting questions on their own.