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eScience -- A Transformed Scientific Method Jim Gray, eScience Group, Microsoft Research /~Gray Outline What’s Computer Science? What Do I do? eScience? What’s that? Peer-Reviewed Literature and Data online? How would that work? What’s Computer Science We have the patent on: the byte (aka information) the algorithm (aka process) This covers just about everything interesting Music is software Literature is software Life is just software DNA is information Metabolism is a process It’s digital What’s SciencePasteur’s Quadrant The Scholarly Life An Amazing Thing Intellectual property is property (has value) Cyberspace is Real Estate! Columbus discovered a New Worldlots of new real estate CyberSpace is a new world EverQuest and Second Life and … And … Windows, Office, Google, …. And music and medicine and …. A $ invested in research pays off 10x or more in NEW IDEAS. Outline What’s Computer Science? What Do I do? eScience? What’s that? Peer-Reviewed Literature and Data online? How would that work? What I Do Meditation Inventing new ways to organize data Inventing new ways to search data Using scientific data as the vehicle (eScience) Service Serve on government boards Professional societies Trying to help scientists Trying to get scientific literature and data online Teaching here I am ? Advise students Mentor (younger) colleagues Outline What’s Computer Science? What Do I do? eScience? What’s that? Peer-Reviewed Literature and Data online? How would that work? X-Info The evolution of X-Info and Comp-X for each discipline X How to codify and represent our knowledge Experiment Budgets ?…? Software Software for Instrument scheduling Instrument control Data gathering Data reduction Database Analysis Modeling Visualization Millions of lines of code Repeated for experiment after experiment Not much sharing or learning CS can change this Build generic tools Workflow schedulers Databases and libraries Analysis packages Visualizers … Ne