I recently had a chit-chat with a 5th year phd friend of mine in front of the stanford bookstore. We both did academic research, and both know all too well the incredible frustration of tech not-having full penetrated academic research. If ever you'd like to work toward making research faster, reply to this. We could think about a couple of things and start cranking out some solutions.
(since you're in cali, and I'm not) I'd like to draw your attention to the science hack days in SF. Have a look at this wiki[0]. WilliamGunn and cazDev on github are two people I know who've participated in / have some connections that might help a project like this happen.
Yo. My email address is in my HN profile, and above I was thinking about the idea of adding an "automated literature reviewer" to paper submissions who would "advertise" relevant papers the way Google tries to advertise relevant to search queries.
I did just enough academic research to discover that real progress could be more effectively pursued elsewhere. I would love to explore this; janardan.yri at me.com.
