Doing science in the open

Michael Nielsen is an author and an advocate of open science. His book about open science, Discovery, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2011. Prior to his book, was an internationally known scientist who helped pioneer the field of quantum . He co-authored the standard text in the field, and wrote more than 50 scientific , including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His work on quantum was recognized in Science Magazine's list of the Top Ten Breakthroughs of 1998. was educated at the University of Queensland, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the of New Mexico. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter for Theoretical Physics. In 2008, he gave up his tenured position to work fulltime on science.