The world-wide telescope

  • Authors:
  • Jim Gray;Alex Szalay

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Group, San Francisco, CA;The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Mining vast databases of astronomical data, this new online way to see the global structure of the universe promises to be not only a wonderful virtual telescope but an archetype for the evolution of computational science.