OpenStax College

I promise I do not idolize Prof. Richard Baraniuk, but, all his ideas are SO GOOD! The aim of OpenStax College is:

"...OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers".

Want to study in a university at an affordable prize in terms of books?. Do it!. We should not lose anyone during their academy trip!.

Richard Feynman - The Uncertainty Of Knowledge

that moves us all...

Global remote sensing research trends during 1991–2010: a bibliometric analysis

This is the title of a paper that can be accessed here whose main aim is:

"...this study evaluated the geographical influence of authors by the new index (geographical impact factor), and revealed the auctorial, institutional, national, and spatiotemporal patterns in remote sensing research".

Two take-home messages:

a) Spain is the 12th world country in terms of remote sensing research (see Table 3). Spain is "overtaken" by the following 5 european countries: UK, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands.

b) There are 4 european scientists among the top 20 remote sensing researchers. They are: Lorenzo Bruzzone Jean-Pierre Wigneron Frederic Baret  and Guilles Foody.

Science and humility

May be it has to do with my own way to look at things, but I really think not all kind of personality or life perspective may match scientific spirit. I would recommend you all to read this article

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"
Carl Sagan

Peer review process

I am getting older and accumulating experience. Sometimes I am happy with the peer review process and others I am not. As a mean feeling I would say I would agree with a change of this system to an "open peer review" process. I would not change everything in it, but it needs to be more transparent. It is clearly not transparent enough.

Discussions about it are more necessary than ever

I have to admit that the future of pattern recognition belongs to mathematicians...Larry Wasserman, John Lafferty, Emmanuel Candes, Robert Tibshirani, Trevor Hastie, Terence Tao, etc.