Die FAKULTÄT FÜR INFORMATIK an der TU Wien lädt zu folgendem Vortrag ein:
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(organisiert vom Wissenschafterinnenkolleg Internettechnologien)

Jim Gray
ACM Turing Award Winner
Microsoft Research

Datum: Freitag, 24. September 2004
Uhrzeit: 13:30 - 14:30+
Ort: TU Wien, Freihaus, FH Hoersaal 5, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8,
Turm A, gruener Bereich, 2. Obergeschoss


Im Anschluss lädt die Informatik-Fakultät zur informellen Diskussion
bei Snacks und Erfrischungen.

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TITEL: On-Line Science: The World-Wide Telescope as a Prototype for the
New Computational Science
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ABSTRACT:
Computational science has historically meant simulation; but, there is an
increasing role for analysis and mining of online scientific data. As a case
in point, half of the world's astronomy data is public. The astronomy
community is putting all that data on the Internet so that the Internet
becomes the world's best telescope: it has the whole sky, in many bands, and
in detail as good as the best 2-year-old telescopes. It is useable by all
astronomers everywhere. This is the vision of the virtual observatory --
also called the World Wide Telescope (WWT). As one step along that path Jim
Gray has been working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (especially Alex
Szalay of Johns Hopkins) and CalTech to federate their data in web services
on the Internet, and to make it easy to ask questions of the database (see
http://skyserver.sdss.org). This talk explains the rationale for the WWT,
discusses how the database has been designed, and talks about some data
mining tasks. It also describes computer science challenges of publishing,
federating, and mining scientific data, and argues that XML web services are
key to federating diverse data sources.

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Kurzbiographie zu Jim Gray
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Jim Gray is a "Distinguished Engineer" in Microsoft's Scaleable Servers
Research Group and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC).
His work focuses on databases and transaction processing. Jim is active in
the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received
the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He is author
of a series of books on data management, and has been active in building
online databases like http://terraService.Net and
http://skyserver.sdss.org.

Jim Gray holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Engineering and a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf
http://research.microsoft.com/~gray.
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HINWEIS:
Vortrag in englischer Sprache; Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.
Im Anschluss an den Vortrag gibt es bei Kaese und Wein die Gelegenheit zum
informellen Meinungsaustausch.
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Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Dr. Beate List,
                              list@wit.tuwien.ac.at, Tel. 58801-18830


Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch
das Institut für Softwaretechnologie und die TU Wien.
WIT wird gefoedert aus Mitteln des Europaeischen Sozialfonds und aus Mitteln
des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur. Die
Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch die freundliche
Unterstuetzung von Microsoft Oesterreich und der Erste Bank.
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Die Fakultät für Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von
     - Siemens AG Österreich
     - Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf
     - Sun Microsystems
     - Caramba Labs Software AG
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