The World Wide Telescope: Mining the Sky
by Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, USA
All astronomy data and literature will soon be online and accessible
via the Internet. The community is building the Virtual Observatory,
an organization of this worldwide data into a coherent whole that can
be accessed by anyone from anywhere. The resulting system will
dramatically improve astronomer's ability to do multi-spectral and
temporal studies integrating data from multiple instruments. The
virtual observatory data also provides a wonderful base for teaching
astronomy, scientific discovery, and computational science. This talk
outlines the challenges and benefits of federating the world's
astronomy archives. It explains why the World Wide Telescope will
likely be a proving ground and poster child for grid-computing, for
web services, and for data mining and visualization. One nice thing
about this data is that it is accessible today to data mining
researchers.
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