| The Times British Science 100: who do you think is missing? Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:02 PM PDT  The Times has outed its list of the top 100 figures in British science, and we've had the list before you’ve had chance to nip to the newsagent. Included are David Attenborough and James Dyson, plus Dawkins and Hawkins, as well as Apple's Jonny Ive, Tim Berners-Lee and Brian Cox, the thinking girl’s crumpet. Click through for the list in full, and drop us a line in the comments to tell us who's missing, and anyone you don't think deserves to be included…
1. Paul Nurse (Nobel laureate, President-elect of Royal Society)
2. Mark Walport (Director, Wellcome Trust)
3. Stephen Hawking (Cosmologist, former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Univ of Cambridge)
4. Alec Jeffreys (inventor of DNA fingerprinting)
5. Jonathan Ive (Senior VP Industrial Design, Apple)
6. John Sulston (Nobel laureate, architect of Human Genome Project)
7. David Attenborough (Broadcaster)
8. Martin Rees (Astronomer-Royal, President of Royal Society)
9. Andre Geim (Nobel prize winner 2010, Russian-born Manchester physicist, developed graphene)
10. Nancy Rothwell (Neuroscientist, VC of Univ of Manchester)
11. John Rose (CEO, Rolls Royce)
12. Iain Lobban (Director of GCHQ)
13. Philip Campbell (Editor in chief, Nature)
14. Andrew Witty (CEO, GlaxoSmithKline)
15. Richard Friend (Cavendish Professor at Cambridge, developed new field of plastic electronics)
16. John Beddington (Govt chief scientist, leading expert on sustainability and conservation)
17. David Mackay (Chief scientist, DECC, expert on sustainable energy)
18. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (First female President of Institute of Physics, astronomer)
19. Ross Brawn (Motorsport engineer and head of world champion Brawn Formula One team)
20. John Bell (Regius Prof of Medicine, Oxford; President, Academy of Medical Sciences; head of Office for
Strategic Coordination of Health Research)
21. James Dyson (Inventor and former chairman, Dyson)
22. Brian Cox (BBC broadcaster and particle physicist)
23. Fred Sanger (Only living double Nobel laureate, one of only four people to win two Nobels and the only
British double winner. Developed genome sequencing technology)
24. Paul Davies (Cosmologist, key player in the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
25. Richard Dawkins (Biologist and author, populariser of evolution, atheist campaigner)
26. Sally Davies (Director General of Research & Development and Chief Scientists, Dept of Health and
NHS, and Acting Chief Medical Officer)
27. Peter Mansfield (Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of MRI scanning)
28. Wendy Hall (Professor of Computing Science, Univ of Southampton)
29. Martin Evans (Nobel laureate, first to culture embryonic stem cells)
30. Kay Davies (Professor of Anatomy, Univ of Oxford, leading expert on genetic disorders)
31. Simon Campbell (Chemist, led team that developed Viagra for Pfizer)
32. David Baulcombe (Regius Professor of Botany, U of Cambridge, role in discovery of RNA interference)
33. Ann Dowling (Prof of Engineering, Univ of Cambridge)
34. Simon Singh (Science writer, libel reform campaigner)
35. Peter Higgs (Prof Emeritus of Physics, Univ of Edinburgh, proposer of Higgs boson)
36. Tim Hunt (Nobel laureate, with Paul Nurse, for work on cell cycle)
37. Mike Stratton (Director of Sanger Institute, pioneer of cancer genomics)
38. Harry Kroto (Nobel laureate chemist, discovered „Buckyball? new form of carbon)
39. Anthony Hollander (Prof of Rheumatology and Tissue Engineering, U of Bristol, led team that did first
successful transplant of an organ made from stem cells)
40. Chris Whitty (Chief scientist, DFID)
41. Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, proved Fermat?s Last Theorem)
42. John Houghton (Leading climate scientist, co-founder of IPCC)
43. Phil Jones (Former head of Climate Research Unit, UEA)
44. Tim Berners-Lee (Engineer and computer scientist, developed world wide web)
45. Greg Winter (Cambridge biologist, developed humanised monoclonal antibodies)
46. David Brennan (CEO, AstraZeneca)
47. David King (Former Government chief scientific adviser, leading chemist, director of Smith School for
Enterprise and the Environment, Univ of Oxford)
48. Leszek Borysiewicz (VC of Univ of Cambridge, former Chf Exec of MRC)
49. Steve Ley (Prof of Organic Chemistry, U of Cambridge, key role in synthesis of many drug molecules)
50. John Pendry (Prof of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial, developed first "invisibility cloak")
51. Chris Stringer (Head of Human Origins, Natural History Museum)
52. Adrian Owen (Cambridge neuroimaging expert, work has allowed patients apparently in vegetative
states to communicate)
53. Kim Shillinglaw (BBC Commissioning Editor, Science & Natural History).
54. Hermann Hauser (Computing entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of Acorn, key government
adviser on commercialising science)
55. Philip Cohen (Dundee U medical biochemist whose work has led to multiple new drugs and biotech
companies. Role in Division of Signal Transduction Therapy collaboration between academia/pharma)
56. Steven Cowley (Director of Culham nuclear fusion lab)
57. James Lovelock (environmental scientist, developed Gaia hypothesis)
58. John Young (Managing Director, Pfizer UK) 59. Ian King (CEO, BAE Systems)
60. Peter Knight (Deputy Rector, Imperial, and leading optics researcher)
61. David Payne (Univ of Southampton, leading optics researcher whose work underpinned broadband
internet, and has founded multiple spinoff companies)
62. Harpal Kumar (CEO, Cancer Research UK)
63. Jim Virdee (Spokesman/lead scientist for CMS experiment at CERN)
64. Peter Ratcliffe (Nuffield Professor of Medicine, Oxford Univ, work has transformed understanding of
cells? response to oxygen, with implications for cancer and heart disease treatment)
65. Colin Blakemore (Neuroscientist, Oxford and Warwick Us, former MRC chf exec, campaigner against
animal rights terrorism)
66. Fiona Fox (Director, Science Media Centre)
67. Graham Richards (Oxford Univ chemist & founder of Isis Innovation – 60 spinout companies)
68. John Browne (President of Royal Academy of Engineering, former CEO of BP)
69. John Krebs (world leading zoologist, former head of Food Standards Agency)
70. Robin Millar (Professor of Education, Univ of York, developed new scientific literacy elements for GCSE)
71. George Efstathiou (Cambridge astrophysicist and cosmologist, lead investigator on Planck spacecraft)
72. John McCloskey (Prof of Geophysics, Univ of Ulster. Earthquake expert who predicted the second
Sumatra earthquake)
73. Heston Blumenthal (chef)
74. Adrian Smith (Director-General research, BIS)
75. Simon Donaldson (President, Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial, Fields Medallist.)
76. David Nutt (Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, former head of
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs)
77. Marcus Du Sautoy (Mathematician, Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford)
78. David Sainsbury (former Science Minister, leading private donor to scientific research)
79. Ben Goldacre (Doctor and author of Bad Science)
80. Michael Rawlins (Chair of NICE, chair, Acad of Medical Sciences medical research regulation review)
81. Guang-Zhong Yang (Prof of Computer Science, Imperial, pioneered computing in medical imaging)
82. Steve O?Rahilly (Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, leading obesity researcher)
83. Fiona Godlee (Editor, BMJ)
84. Robert Winston (Broadcaster and fertility medicine pioneer)
85. Janet Thornton (director of European Bioinformatics Institute)
86. Mark Welland (Leading nanotechnology scientist, and chief scientist at Ministry of Defence)
87. Mike Richards (National clinical director for cancer)
88. Steve Sparks (Bristol University, leading volcanologist)
89. Ottoline Leyser (plant scientist, Univ of York, important work on mothers in science)
90. Mark Miodownik (Materials scientist, King?s College London, next Royal Institution Christmas lecturer)
91. Callum Roberts (Leading marine biologist)
92. Prince Charles (Heir to the Throne)
93. John Armitt (Chairman, Olympic Delivery Authority, former CEO of Railtrack)
94. Paul Smith (Head of Millennium Seed Bank Project, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew)
95. Richard Fortey (Natural History Museum palaeontologist)
96. Shankar Balasubramanian (Cambridge chemist, founder of Solexa DNA sequencing company)
97. Dame Sue Ion (BNFL)
98. Paul Westbury (Young engineer, among the Millennium Dome/O2 engineers)
99. Steve Bramwell (Inventor of magnetricity)
100. Roy Anderson (Epidemiologist, former Rector of Imperial and MoD chief scientist)
Is there anyone who deserves to be here that isn’t, or visa versa? Drop us a line in the comments and tell us your British science heroes. Related posts: - Science Museum unleashes unstoppable Morphibian vehicle
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| Facebook app scandal: how long until you quit? Posted: 06 Oct 2010 09:45 AM PDT  Ahead of this afternoon’s Facebook announcement comes a serious claim about how, surprise surprise, Facebook deals with our data. First, The Guardian pointed out that the Facebook iPhone app uploads personal phone numbers without asking if you’re using earlier versions of the Facebook iPhone app – the current version gives you a slightly confused warning. Then, we followed the trail to the Apple App Store guidelines, which have caused many an app to be rejected for not dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, and found that Facebook could have breached the guidelines on at least two counts.
Here at Electricpig towers, we didn’t realise we were uploading this info, although it’s not clear yet how recently the sync warning was added (we’ve asked Facebook for clarification). If you are using an older version of the Facebook iPhone app, it asks if you would like to add profile pictures and links to contacts, which, if you say yes, results in phone numbers from those individuals being uploaded onto Facebook. That looks like it broke the Apple App Store rules for admission. Firstly, it could be construed as a hidden feature, which we all know is not allowed. Secondly, it was transmitting data without a user’s consent.  We’re at a worrying juncture, where Facebook penetration is so great, and the privacy concerns with Facebook so frequent that to regain our privacy, we’d have to pull out and sacrifice all the photos, videos and memories we’ve uploaded, and the probability of us all doing that is pretty close to zero. The root of this is Zuckerberg, and his apparent privacy-schmivacy attitude to sharing information. Is he right, or is he living in a bubble? Want to check what you uploaded possibly without realising? Click here. Has Zuckerberg pushed us all into accepting his attitude towards privacy? Namely, that it doesn’t really exist anymore? Will you ever quit Facebook? Click and tell… Related posts: - Facebook iPhone app: breaks rules, shares data, but does Apple care?
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| The Social Network: stars and screenwriter in London Posted: 06 Oct 2010 09:14 AM PDT  If you’re desperate to get a glimpse of JT, or suck up some words of wisdom from Aaron Sorkin, the stars and screen writer of The Social Network will be appearing in the flesh at the Apple Store in Regent Street, London, this Friday from 7pm. Aside from JT and Aaron Sorkin, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield will also be there. The event is free, and will include a talk, Q&A, plus clips from The Social Network, which so far, has been compared to The Godfather and is beating ET in ratings. Seats are first come first served, so best to get there early.
7pm Friday 8 Oct | Apple Store, Regent St, London | Free Related posts: - The Social Network: do you believe the hype?
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| Kiss vs illegal downloaders: Gene Simmons says sue everyone Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT  Kiss star, money fan, repeated reality TV irritant and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock star, Gene Simmons rocked up at MIPCOM, the annual music industry funfest in Cannes yesterday to lambast evil illegal downloads. His message to acts: sue everyone. Read on for the actual words from the long on tongue, short on shame Kiss bassist. Warning: features tortured use of animal fables…
During a panel discussion, dressed in civilian clothes rather than his Kiss makeup and uniform sadly, Simmons outlined his zero-tolerance approach to tackling illegal downloads: "Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don't let anybody cross that line."
Simmons called the music industry out for being too cowardly. No matter what age you are, crossing him and his Kiss empire will not be tolerated: "The music industry didn't have the balls to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material." In Cannes to hawk his reality show Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, the Kiss mainstay reminded the crowd of all the spinoff merchandise the band has created: "Kiss condoms, Kiss caskets…we have everything from Kiss HD television sets…to Kiss motorcycles…" Don’t expect the Kiss TVs to hit our best LCD TV list any time soon. Explaining his theory on illegal downloading, the Kiss man turned rock'n'roll Aesop with the tale of the fox and the farmer. Once upon a time there was a baby fox, the farmer caught the fox stealing an egg but didn't kill it because it was too cute. "But that little fox went back with a free egg," says Simmons, "And then the other foxes overran the farm and killed all the chickens…and didn't pay for it." "Don't let any cute little foxes near your henhouse!" roared Simmons. So there you are, that's the illegal downloading solved. Sue 'em all or even better (as Metallica, no fans of illegal downloading themselves, once sang) kill 'em all and grab their new iPod touch while you’re there. Thanks for your input Gene, you're a gem… Out now | £NA | Kiss (via MIPMarkets) Related posts: - Illegal downloaders spend more on music, says survey
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| Facebook iPhone app: breaks rules, shares data, but does Apple care? Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:29 AM PDT  Update: The current version of the Facebook iPhone app has a warning for syncing users. Those who synced with an old version won’t have seen the warnings though, and we’re still left wondering where some numbers in our Facebook address book have come from, and exactly what usage rights Facebook has over the content. There’s a large remove data button in the Facebook app when you have sync turned on but that appears to just delete Facebook contact info from the phone. Removing the details from the web which have been synced isn't simply explained. It seems you need to turn off the sync function in the iPhone app and visit this link (which doesn't currently seem to be working). We're still chasing Facebook and Apple for comment on the outstanding issues.
If you use the Facebook iPhone app sync feature you might not have realised it does more than add pictures to your address book. A piece by The Guardian's Charles Arthur points out today that the Facebook iPhone app also uploads all the numbers in your phone's address book to Facebook, seemingly without warning. It's a move that puts Facebook on a collision course with Apple, as it breaches app store guidelines. So why is Facebook still in the App store and Apple ads if it's breaking the rules? Kurt von Moos, quoted in The Guardian's, says: "Facebook doesn't warn users that they are uploading their phone's address book to Facebook. In fact, because Facebook doesn't sync contact number or email addresses TO your phone, most users wrongly assume that Facebook Contact Sync only syncs user pictures. In reality, they are pumping your address book, without consent." The Electricpig Facebook users are pretty savvy about privacy settings, but even we weren't aware that Facebook slings you iPhone's contact numbers onto the web where they could be accessible to others. The Facebook app also appears to share numbers for contacts that you don't have, but your Facebook friends do. Follow this link while logged onto Facebook and you'll see your own inadvertent stash of online numbers. In the latest version of the Facebook iPhone app, the sync function is labelled with the words "Add Facebook profile pictures and links to Contacts". There's no indication that the numbers from your phone will be synced to the web and according to Apple App Store Review guidelines (PDF link), we think the Facebook is in breach of the rules. Firstly the syncing of your iPhone contacts by the Facebook iPhone app could be construed as a hidden feature. That would be in contravention of Apple's App Store Review guideline 2.4: "Apps that include undocumented or hidden features inconsistent with the description of the app will be rejected." Secondly and perhaps more importantly, the Facebook iPhone app seems to ignore Apple's rules on user consent, specifically point 7.1 which states: "Apps cannot transmit data about a user obtaining the user's prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used." We've contacted both Apple and Facebook and are waiting for a response. While Apple isn't responsible for Facebook's phone book scraping, it looks like the app does breach the rules. Is Facebook simply big enough to be granted an exception? We're also interested to hear Facebook's explanation for not clearly indicating how its syncing feature works. We'd love to hear what you think about the Facebook iPhone app grabbing phone numbers in such a subtle way. Are you non-plussed? Shout up in the comments section below. Out now | £free | Facebook Related posts: - Lunchtime Lowdown: iPhone in web popularity contest, Facebook shares data, Blu-Ray confusion continues
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| Facebook event: redesign incoming? Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:24 AM PDT  That Facebook event this afternoon? Looks like another Facebook redesign could be at least part of what the social network has to say. Keen Facebook watchers have already spotted elements of the new design popping up on the site but we're hoping that Zuckerberg and co will have more to announce than a redesign and a big flashing neon sign that reads: "Do not go to see The Social Network!"
Like Twitter and the delights of new Twitter, Facebook looks set to give the site a new glossy sheen. Some users are reporting a new version of chat with it more integrated into the main part of the page. There's also talk of larger profile pictures and profile pictures integrated into Facebook Chat which sounds like it could be headed in an iChat-style direction. We're also told to expect Facebook profile pages to get an overhaul to look more like the design of Facebook Places pages. The Facebook redesign is also likely to include lots of subtle tweaks and changes to the user interface to bring stuff like Facebook Photos, Groups and Pages together a little more cohesively. The Facebook lockdown which we heard alluded to earlier in the year is rumoured to have been all about this Facebook redesign with coders burning the midnight oil. The Facebook Event kicks off at 6pm and we'll be bringing you the new on the latest Facebook developments as soon as we get it. Out now | £free | Facebook (via Techcrunch) Related posts: - Facebook event ticket sales incoming?
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| PlayStation Move Submachine Gun: virtual war weapon revealed! Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:02 AM PDT |
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