Date:
Thursday, December 7, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>
Location: Building 380, Room 380C<BR/><BR/>
<p>Jim Gray, eScience Group, Microsoft Research, "eScience -- A Transformed Scientific Method"</p>
<p>ABSTRACT:</p>
<p>I have been working for the last decade to get all scientific data and literature online and cross-indexed. Progress has been astonishing, but the real changes will happen in the next decade. First, the funding agencies are forcing peer-reviewed science literature into the public domain and peer-reviewed science literature is being curated in new ways -- cross-indexed to the data that produced it. Scientific data has traditionally been hoarded by investigators (with notable exceptions). The forced electronic publication of scientific literature and data poses some deep technical questions: just exactly how does anyone read and understand it? How can we preserve so that it will be readable in a century? Incidental to this, each intellectual discipline X is building an X-informatics and computational-X branch. It is those branches in collaboration with Computer Science that are faced with solving these issues. I have been pursuing these questions in Geography (with <a href="http://TerraService.Net">http://TerraService.Net</a>), Astronomy (with the World-Wide telescope -- e.g. <a href="http://SkyServer.Sdss.org">http://SkyServer.Sdss.org</a> and <a href="http://www.ivoa.net/">http://www.ivoa.net/</a>) and more recently in bio informatics (with portable PubMedCentral <a href="http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ppmcsupport/">http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ppmcsupport/</a>).</p><BR/>
Thursday, December 7, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>
Location: Building 380, Room 380C<BR/><BR/>
<p>Jim Gray, eScience Group, Microsoft Research, "eScience -- A Transformed Scientific Method"</p>
<p>ABSTRACT:</p>
<p>I have been working for the last decade to get all scientific data and literature online and cross-indexed. Progress has been astonishing, but the real changes will happen in the next decade. First, the funding agencies are forcing peer-reviewed science literature into the public domain and peer-reviewed science literature is being curated in new ways -- cross-indexed to the data that produced it. Scientific data has traditionally been hoarded by investigators (with notable exceptions). The forced electronic publication of scientific literature and data poses some deep technical questions: just exactly how does anyone read and understand it? How can we preserve so that it will be readable in a century? Incidental to this, each intellectual discipline X is building an X-informatics and computational-X branch. It is those branches in collaboration with Computer Science that are faced with solving these issues. I have been pursuing these questions in Geography (with <a href="http://TerraService.Net">http://TerraService.Net</a>), Astronomy (with the World-Wide telescope -- e.g. <a href="http://SkyServer.Sdss.org">http://SkyServer.Sdss.org</a> and <a href="http://www.ivoa.net/">http://www.ivoa.net/</a>) and more recently in bio informatics (with portable PubMedCentral <a href="http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ppmcsupport/">http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ppmcsupport/</a>).</p><BR/>