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DR. GEORGE DJORGOVSKI
The
Nature
article
2020 Computing: A two-way street to science's future said
A more sophisticated narrative says that science is
increasingly about
information: its collection, organization and transformation. And if we
view computer science as "the systematic study of algorithmic processes
that describe and transform information", then computing underpins
science in a far more fundamental way. One can argue, as has George
Djorgovski, that "applied computer science is now playing the role which
mathematics did from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries:
providing an orderly, formal framework and exploratory apparatus for
other sciences."
Dr. George Djorgovski
is Professor of Astronomy at the
California Institute of
Technology (Caltech). He is Co-Director,
Center for Advanced
Computing Research,
Caltech, Co-Chair CELT/TMT Site Selection Working Group, and a member of
the
U.S. National Virtual Observatory (NVO)
Science Steering Committee.
He was on the
NASA Michelson Science Center Oversight Committee, the
Advisory Committee for the
NASA/IPAC National Extragalactic Database, and was a member of the
NASA
Space Interferometer
Science Working Group.
George is editor of
Structure and Dynamics of Globular Clusters (Asp Conference Series
Publications : Volume 50), author of
Multivariate statistical analysis software technologies for
astrophysical
research involving large data bases, and coauthor or author of
Exploring the Multi-Wavelength, Low Surface Brightness
Universe in
Conference on Virtual Observatories of the Future,
Generalized SETI in a Virtual Observatory in
Bioastronomy
99: A New Era in Bioastronomy, and
Toward the Application of a Metric Size Function in Galactic Evolution
and Cosmology in the
Astrophysical Journal.
Read his
full list of publications!
He earned a B.A. in
Astrophysics at the
University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia in 1979, a M.A. in Astronomy at the
University of California, Berkeley
in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy at the University of California,
Berkeley in
1985.
He was a
Harvard Junior Fellow from 1985 to 1987.
His awards include the
1996
NASA Group Achievement Award, 1991
Dudley Observatory Award, and
1988-1991
Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Fellow.
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