Comments on: World’s Most Ambitious Crowdsource http://emergentfool.com/2009/05/31/worlds-most-ambitious-crowdsource/ ...explorations in complex adaptive systems... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ali http://emergentfool.com/2009/05/31/worlds-most-ambitious-crowdsource/#comment-10766 Ali Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:15:02 +0000 http://emergentfool.com/?p=1679#comment-10766 Sorry, I messed up my last comment, which a paste of a reader comment on the original BWeek article you quote. Sorry, I messed up my last comment, which a paste of a reader comment on the original BWeek article you quote.

]]> By: Ali http://emergentfool.com/2009/05/31/worlds-most-ambitious-crowdsource/#comment-10765 Ali Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:14:02 +0000 http://emergentfool.com/?p=1679#comment-10765 nickd May 21, 2009 2:38 PM GMT It is well known in the scientific world that CERN's consensus management approach (necessary given it's funding structure) has limited it's productivity over the years. For most of it's existence, CERN built better machines than the US, but came in second in pioneering discoveries. CERN's one shining moment (W,Z discovery) happened when it was run by a relatively authoritarian director, Carlo Rubbia. There is a good chance that the LHC will repeat this pattern - it's a great machine in the long run, but the "paper clip and tape" machine at Fermilab will likely see the Higgs first. Shades of the ISR (author - ask your CERN contacts what that means). nickd
May 21, 2009 2:38 PM GMT
It is well known in the scientific world that CERN’s consensus management approach (necessary given it’s funding structure) has limited it’s productivity over the years. For most of it’s existence, CERN built better machines than the US, but came in second in pioneering discoveries. CERN’s one shining moment (W,Z discovery) happened when it was run by a relatively authoritarian director, Carlo Rubbia. There is a good chance that the LHC will repeat this pattern – it’s a great machine in the long run, but the “paper clip and tape” machine at Fermilab will likely see the Higgs first. Shades of the ISR (author – ask your CERN contacts what that means).

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