Posted by s.hettrick on 30 April 2014 - 2:37pm

Kenji Takeda released an excellent post yesterday about reproducibility and our Collaborations Workshop.

Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor we often use to describe how research advances. More than an aphorism, it is a mindset that we ingrain in students when they start graduate school: take the time to understand the current state of the art before attempting to advance it further. Having to justify why you have reinvented the wheel during your PhD defence is not a comfortable situation to be in. Moreover, the value of truly reproducible research is reinforced every time a paper is retracted because its results cannot be reproduced, or every time that promising academic research—such as pursuit of important new drugs—fails to meet the test of reproducibility.

To read the post, visit the Microsoft Research blog.