An interesting book review: A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing By JOHN MARKOFF<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_markoff/index.html?inline=nyt-per> 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<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/microsoft_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org>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 t...@jtjohnson.com "Be Your Own Publisher" http://indiepubwest.com ==========================================
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