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Hackers and those in the 'open source' community have done much to change how we use computers and computer software. But can a hacker ethic usefully be extended to science and the dissemination of scientific knowledge? Speakers: McKenzie Ward, Professor of Cultural and media Studies at Lang College, New School University and author of The Hacker Manifesto; Ian Gibson, MP and Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology; Dr Tim Hubbard, Head of Human Genome Analysis, The Sanger Institute; David Bodanis, author of Electric Universe. Chair: Fiona Fox, Science Media Centre.