The fourth paradigm : data-intensive scientific discovery

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Gordon Bell -- Jim Gray on eScience : a transformed scientific method / edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle -- Earth and enironment. Introduction / Dan Fay -- Gray's laws : database-centric computing in science / Alexander S. Szalay, José A. Blakeley -- The emerging science of environmental applications / Jeff Dozier, William B. Gail -- Redefining ecological science using data / James R. Hunt, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Catharine van Ingen -- A 2020 vision for ocean science / John R. Delaney, Roger S. Barga -- Bringing the night sky closer : discoveries in the data deluge / Alyssa A. Goodman, Curtis G. Wong -- Instrumenting the earth : next-generation sensor networks and environmental science / Michael Lehning ... [et al.] -- Health and wellbeing. Introduction / Simon Mercer -- The healthcare singularity and the age of semantic medicine / Michael Gillam ... [et al.] -- Healthcare delivery in developing countries : challenges and potential solutions / Joel Robertson ... [et al.] -- Discovering the wiring diagram of the brain / Jeff W. Lichtman ... [et al.] -- Toward a computational microscope for neurobiology / Eric Horvitz, William Kristan -- A unified modeling approach to data-intensive healthcare / Iain Buchan, John Winn, Chris Bishop -- Visualization in process algebra models of biological systems / Luca Cardelli, Corrado Priami -- Scientific infrastructure. Introduction / Daron Green -- A new path for science? / Mark R. Abbott -- Beyond the tsunami : developing the infrastructure to deal with life sciences data / Christopher Southan, Graham Cameron -- Multicore computing and scientific discovery / James Larus, Dennis Gannon -- Parallelism and the cloud / Dennis Gannon, Dan Reed -- The impact of workflow tools on data-centric research / Carole Goble, David De Roure -- Semantic eScience : encoding meaning in next-generation digitally enhanced science / Peter Fox, James Hendler -- Visualization for data-intensive science / Charles Hansen ... [et al.] -- A platform for all that we know : creating a knowledge-driven research infrastructure / Savas Parastatidis -- Scholarly communications. Introduction / Lee Dirks -- Jim Gray's fourth paradigm and the construction of the scientific record / Clifford Lynch -- Text in a data-centric world / Paul Ginsparg -- All aboard : toward a machine-friendly scholarly communication system / Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze -- The future of data policy / Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Kylie Pappalardo -- I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us / John Wilbanks -- From Web 2.0 to the global database / Timo Hannay -- The way forward / Craig Mundie -- Conclusions / Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, Kristin Tolle -- Next steps.

"This collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science."--P. [4] of cover.

Also available in digital form on the Microsoft Research Web site.