Mundie: Science as a Web Service

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I realized I forgot to post about Craig Mundie's article in the March/April Technology Review -

Science as a Web Service

XML can supercharge research.

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XML is also one of the enabling technologies for grid computing and Web services, which will revolutionize the scientific community in the coming decade by enabling the free exchange of information across distributed systems. Remote computation will be directly accessible from any desktop, and sensors and instruments will have their own Internet addresses.

The immediate challenge for the scientific and engineering community is to take advantage of available data management and data analysis tools. The larger and longer-term challenge is for the leaders in academic research to leverage software and Web services technologies to standardize the way they present and track their data.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/dan\_fay)