Virtual astronomy, information technology, and the new scientific methodology

Proceedings - International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception, CAMP

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 125-132

  Djorgovski, S G ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Data management; Information technology; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge representation; Scientific visualization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CLUSTERING; SCIENCE-DRIVEN COMPUTING; VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 28444460284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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