Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The Virtual Observatory (15 Jun 2004) Szalay hopes that the Sloan Survey, combined with other's efforts, will form a virtual observatory and cause an entire paradigm shift in astronomy and other sciences. He said, 'The exciting thing about this will be the question of how you do science when you collect and have at your fingertips so much data that you simply can't even think of displaying it on your computer screen.' Article URL: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=217 Read 110 more articles from Microsoft sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: What Europe's download services offer This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy