Preface to Handbook Volume – 31

Thought leaders in academia, industry, and government are focused on the explosion of data being generated around us on a continuous basis in almost every field of scientific endeavor. This has led to a fundamental paradigm shift in how scientific progress is achieved. Data analytics has now become central to knowledge discovery in what Jim Gray from Microsoft Research has termed “The Fourth Paradigm.” In the last few decades, the pace of scientific discovery increased sharply with the advent of computers and progressively easier access to computing resources. Science turned computational (“the third paradigm”) with the ability to generate simulated data produced by the modeling of complex phenomena and the development ...

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