A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

[Tom Johnson]

An interesting book review:

A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: December 14, 2009

"In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher, sketched out an argument that computing was fundamentally transforming the practice of science."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/science/15books.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=markoff%20data&st=cse

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[Robert Holmes]

You can download the book here:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/

-- Robert

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

An interesting book review:

A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

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By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: December 14, 2009

"In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher, sketched out an argument that computing was fundamentally transforming the practice of science."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/science/15books.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=markoff%20data&st=cse

-- tj
==========================================
J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com                 [hidden email]

"Be Your Own Publisher"
http://indiepubwest.com
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