Computer science: Beyond the data deluge

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5919, 2009, Pages 1297-1298

  Bell, Gordon ^a   Hey, Tony ^a   Szalay, Alex ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA PROCESSING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 62149144693     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1170411     Document Type: Short Survey

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7. Jim Gray talked about the need for such a "brick architecture" in his Mackay Lectures at Berkeley as long ago as 4 October 1994, under the title "SNAP - Scalable Networks and Platforms," followed on 4 November 1995 by a lecture titled "Parallel Database Systems: A SNAP application." These lectures are available in the Internet Archive www.archive.org under www.research.microsoft.com/~gray.
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10. Jim Gray was one of the founders of modern database technology and transaction processing and received the Turing Award in 1998. Recognizing that the greatest future data challenges would come not from commercial database applications, but from the next generation of scientific experiments, he spent 10 years systematically exploring his "Fourth Paradigm," working with astronomers, biologists, oceanographers, and geographers. Jim was tragically lost at sea in January 2007 in the midst of his latest challenge.
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14. We thank J. Fay (World Wide Telescope) for providing the figure.