The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
This book is about a new, fourth paradigm for science based on data- intensive computing. In such scientific research, we are at a stage of development that is analogous to when the printing press was invented. Printing took a thousand years to develop and evolve into the many forms it takes today. Using computers to gain understanding from data created and stored in our electronic data stores will likely take decades — or less. In Jim Gray's last talk to the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board on January 11, 2007, he described his vision of the fourth paradigm of scientific research. He outlined a two-part plea for the funding of tools for data capture, curation, and analysis, and for a communication and publication infrastructure. He argued for the establishment of modern stores for data and documents that are on par with traditional libraries.
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