NVO Science Definition Team
website and the
National Virtual Observatory (NVO) White Paper
astro-ph/0108115 --
local PDF -- a precursor to the NVO SDT report
"Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure",
an NSF report (aka the Atkins Report):
Report website
and individual PDF files:
Executive Summary --
The Report --
Appendices (PDF files)
"Virtual Observatory: From Concept to Implementation", by S. G. Djorgovski & R. Williams, ASPCS vol. 345, p. 517 (2005), available at
astro-ph/0504006 --
local PDF
"Virtual Astronomy, Information Technology, and the New Scientific Methodology", by S. G. Djorgovski,
in IEEE Proc. of CAMP05: Computer Architectures for Machine Perception,
eds. V. Di Gesu & D. Tegolo, p. 125 (2005), available at
astro-ph/0504651 --
local PDF
"2020: Computational Science in an Exponential World", by A. Szalay & J. Gray,
Nature, 440, 413 (2006) --
(PDF)
"The World-Wide Telescope", by A. Szalay & J. Gray,
Science, 293, 2037 (2001) --
local gzip PS --
local PDF
"The Heavens at Your Fingertips", a news feature,
Nature, 420, 262 (2002) --
local gzip PS --
local PDF
An article from
Physics Today, Feb. 2002 --
local gzip PS --
local PDF
For more info, please contact George Djorgovski:
george@astro.caltech.edu
Other links:
Selected KDD and DM links (obsolete!)
George's Digital Archives and Journals links
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