Building the WorldWide Telescope

ABSTRACT

This paper is talks about the critical role that Jim Gray played in the creation of the WorldWide Telescope software. Contrary to what you might think it wasn't his database brilliance that made it happen, it was his generosity in sharing credit, inspiring, nurturing and connecting people, in this case that made it possible for the pieces to come into place and make it happen. Without Jim Gray's work with Alex Szalay on Sky Server and their ongoing support and encouragement, the software that is named in their honor would not exist today.

REFERENCES

• 1: {Gray} http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/
• 2: {Singh, Gray} SkyServer Traffic Report -- The First Five Years http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=1236Technical%20Report&id=1236
• 3: {Gray} <u>Databases meet Astronomy</u>, Microsoft in Redmond http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/talks/Databases_Meet_Astronomy_Redmond.ppt
• 4: Tom Barclay , Jim Gray , Don Slutz, Microsoft TerraServer: a spatial data warehouse, Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, p.307-318, May 15-18, 2000, Dallas, Texas, United States
• 5: {Landsberg} The Visualization of Astrophysical Data: Bringing together Science, Art and Education http://kicp-workshops.uchicago.edu/visualization2005/ May 2005

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software

          Nouns: World Wide Web (WWW)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Distributed systems; Information networks

General Terms:
Design, Management