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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery Book
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A new book of essays titled The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive 
Scientific Discovery, has been released by Microsoft Research and is 
available for download under a Creative Commons license at

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/contents.aspx

You can download the whole book, or individual sections or 
subsections. The book, edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and 
Kirstin Tolle, is being released in conjunction with the Microsoft 
E-science meeting currently being held at Carnegie-Mellon University. 
The book is dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray and explores his 
intellectual legacy in Earth and Environment, Health and Well Being, 
Scientific Infrastructure, and Scholarly Communication. Many of the 
chapters are by authors well-known within the CNI community, 
particularly in the Scholarly Communications section, which includes 
contributions by Timo Hanny, Paul Ginsparg, Herbert Van de Somple and 
Carl Lagoze; I also had the opportunity to contribute a chapter for 
this section. I would urge CNI-announce readers to at least browse 
beyond the Scholarly Communications section; there are a number of 
important chapters on broader developments in e-science that I think 
will be of interest. There's also a short interview wtih Tony Hey 
about the book at

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fourthparadigm-101609.aspx

(DIsclosure: I serve on the Microsoft Research External Advisory Board.)

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI