Fourth Paradigm book launched

The book The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, a collection of essays expanding on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray, was launched at the Microsoft eScience 2009 Workshop.

Chapters include The impact of workflow tools on data-centric research by and , and A unified modeling approach to data-intensive healthcare by Iain Buchan, John Winn and Chris Bishop.

The book is available from the web and is released under a Creative Commons license.