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UK prof receives Jim Gray award
Carole Goble
Microsoft last night gave the inaugural Jim Gray eScience Award to Carole Goble, a computer-science professor at the University of Manchester in the UK. The award is named after the renowned Microsoft technical fellow who went missing off the California coast last year.
The company says the award was established to recognize scientists and researchers who apply computing technology to come up with scientific insights and innovation. The field of eScience lets researchers process huge data sets, often using distributed networks.
Among other roles, Goble is director of the myGrid eScience project, which has been applied to areas including social science, music, astronomy and chemistry.
Microsoft earlier this year named a new advanced development center in Madison, Wis., after Gray.
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