The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and beyond

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.

[1]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Life Under Your Feet: An End-to-End Soil Ecology Sensor Network, Database, Web Server, and Analysis Service , 2007, ArXiv.

[2]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Web services for the Virtual Observatory , 2002, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation.

[3]  A. Szalay,et al.  Batch Query System with Interactive Local Storage for SDSS and the VO , 2004 .

[4]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web , 2007, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[5]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  TeraScale SneakerNet: Using Inexpensive Disks for Backup, Archiving, and Data Exchange , 2002, ArXiv.

[6]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Petascale computational systems , 2007, Computer.

[7]  David J. DeWitt,et al.  Scientific data management in the coming decade , 2005, SGMD.

[8]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Petabyte Scale Data Mining: Dream or Reality? , 2002, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation.

[9]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  SkyServer Traffic Report - The First Five Years , 2007, ArXiv.

[10]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Cross-Matching Multiple Spatial Observations and Dealing with Missing Data , 2007, ArXiv.

[11]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Spatial Clustering of Galaxies in Large Datasets , 2002, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation.

[12]  Peter Z. Kunszt,et al.  Indexing the Sphere with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh , 2007, ArXiv.

[13]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Where the Rubber Meets the Sky: Bridging the Gap between Databases and Science , 2004, IEEE Data Eng. Bull..

[14]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  HTM2: Spatial Toolkit for the Virtual Observatory , 2004 .

[15]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  The world-wide telescope , 2001, CACM.

[16]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  The Zones Algorithm for Finding Points-Near-a-Point or Cross-Matching Spatial Datasets , 2007, ArXiv.

[17]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  There Goes the Neighborhood: Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Search , 2004, ArXiv.

[18]  Aniruddha R. Thakar,et al.  SkyQuery -- A Prototype Distributed Query Web Service for the Virtual Observatory , 2003 .

[19]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Using Table Valued Functions in SQL Server 2005 To Implement a Spatial Data Library , 2007, ArXiv.

[20]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Using Data-Cubes in Science: an Example from Environmental Monitoring of the Soil Ecosystem , 2006 .

[21]  Alexander S. Szalay,et al.  Large-Scale Query and XMatch, Entering the Parallel Zone , 2007, ArXiv.

[22]  Peter Z. Kunszt,et al.  Migrating a multiterabyte archive from object to relational databases , 2003, Comput. Sci. Eng..