Alexander S. Szalay
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Our collaboration with Jim Gray has created some of the world's largest astronomy databases, and has enabled us to test many avant-garde ideas in practice. The astronomers have been very receptive to these and embraced Jim as a 'card carrying member' of their community. Jim's contributions have made a permanent mark on astronomy, and eScience in general.
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- Thakar, A., Szalay, A., Kunszt, P. and Gray. J.: Migrating a Multiterabyte Archive from Object to Relational Databases, Computing in Science and Engineering, 5, 16 (2003). Google Scholar
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- Szalay, A. S., Kunszt, P. Thakar, A., Gray, J., Slutz, D. and Brunner, R.: Designing and Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Proc. SIGMOD 2000 Conference, 451--462 (2000). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Budavari, T., Malik, T., Szalay, A. S., Thakar, A., Gray, J.: SkyQuery: a Prototype Distributed Query Web Service for the Virtual Observatory, Proc. ADASS XII, ASP Conference Series, eds: H. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski and R. N. Hook, 295, 31 (2003).Google Scholar
- Szalay, A. S., Budavari, T., Malik, T. Gray, J. and Thakar, A.: Web Services for the Virtual Observatory, Proc. SPIE Conference on Advanced Telescope Technologies, 4846, 124 (2002).Google Scholar
- Szalay, A. S., Budavari, T., Connolly, A. J., Gray, J., Matsubara, T., Pope, A. and Szapudi, I: Spatial Clustering of Galaxies in Large Datasets, Proc. SPIE Conference on Advanced Telescope Technologies, 4846, (2002).Google ScholarCross Ref
- Szalay, A. S., Gray, J., Fekete, G., Kunszt, P., Kukol, P., Thakar, A.: Indexing the Sphere with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh, MSR-TR-2005-123 (2005).Google Scholar
- Fekete, G., Szalay, A. S., Gray, J.: HTM2: Spatial Toolkit for the Virtual Observatory, Proc. ADASS XIII, ASPGoogle Scholar
- Gray, J., Szalay, A. S., Fekete, G.: Using Table Valued Functions in SQL Server 2005 To Implement a Spatial Data Library, MSR-TR-2005-122 (2005).Google Scholar
- Gray, J., Szalay, A. S. Fekete, G., O'Mullane, W., Thakar, A. R., Heber, G., Rots, A. H.: There Goes the Neighborhood: Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Search, Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2004-32, (2004).Google Scholar
- Gray, J., Nieto-Santisteban, M. A., Szalay, A. S.: " The Zones Algorithm for Finding Points-Near-a-Point or Cross-Matching Spatial Datasets," MSR-TR-2006-52, (2006).Google Scholar
- Nieto-Santisteban, M. A., Thakar, A. R., Szalay, A. S., Gray, J.: Large-Scale Query and XMatch, Entering the Parallel Zone, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV ASP Conference Series. Eds: C. Gabriel, C. Arviset, D. Ponz, and E. Solano. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol 351, p.493 (2006).Google Scholar
- Gray, J., Szalay, A., Budavári, T., Thakar, A. R., Nieto-Santisteban, M. A., Lupton, R.: Cross-Matching Multiple Spatial Observations and Dealing with Missing Data, Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-175 (2006).Google Scholar
- Szalay, A. S. and Gray, J.: The World-Wide Telescope, Science, 293, 2037--2040 (2001).Google ScholarCross Ref
- Gray, J., Szalay, A. S.: Where the Rubber Meets the Sky: Bridging the Gap between Databases and Science, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, December 2004, Vol. 27.4 (2004), also MSR-TR-2004-110, October 2004.Google Scholar
- Gray, J., Chong, W., Barclay, T., Szalay, A. S., Vandenberg, J.: TeraScale SneakerNet: Using Inexpensive Disks for Backup, Archiving, and Data Exchange, Microsoft Technical Report, MS-TR-2002-54, (2002).Google Scholar
- O'Mullane, W., Gray, J., Li, N., Budavari, T., Nieto Santisteban, M., Szalay, A. S.: Batch Query System with Interactive local storage for SDSS and the VO, Proc. ADASS XIII, ASP Conference Series, eds: F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen and D. Egret, 314, 372 (2004).Google Scholar
- Singh, V., Gray, J., Thakar, A. R., Szalay, A. S., Raddick, J., Boroski, B., Lebedeva, S., Yanny, B.: SkyServer Traffic Report - The First Five Years, Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-190 (2006).Google Scholar
- Gray, J., Liu, D. T., Nieto-Santisteban, M. A., Szalay, A. S., Heber, G., DeWitt, D.: Scientific Data Management in the Coming Decade, MSR-TR-2005-10 (2005).Google Scholar
- Szalay, A. S., Gray, J.: Science in an Exponential World, Nature, 413, 440 (2006).Google Scholar
- Szalay, A. S., Gray, J., Vandenberg, J.: Petabyte Scale Data Mining: Dream or Reality? Proc. SPIE Conference on Advanced Telescope Technologies, 4846, (2002).Google Scholar
- Bell, G., Gray, J., Szalay, A. S.: Petascale Computational Systems, IEEE Computer, 110, 39 (2006). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Balazinska, M., Deshpande, A., Franklin, M. J., Gibbons, P. B., Gray, J., Hansen, M., Liebhold, M., Nath, S., Szalay, A., Tao, V.: Data Management in the World-Wide Sensor Web, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6, p.30 (2007). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Szlavecz, K., Terzis, A., Musǎloiu-E., R., Cogan, J., Small, S., Ozer, S., Burns, R., Gray, J., Szalay, A. S.: Life Under Your Feet: An End-to-End Soil Ecology Sensor Network, Database, Web Server, and Analysis Service, Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-90 (2006).Google Scholar
- Ozer, S., Szalay, A. S., Szlavecz, K., Terzis, T., Musǎloiu-E., R., Cogan, J.: Using Data-Cubes in Science: an Example from Environmental Monitoring of the Soil Ecosystem, Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-134 (2006).Google Scholar
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