Jim  Gray (1944-2007) chartered the road ahead as  the Fourth Paradigm, i.e. scientific discoveries enabled by scalable database management technology. It comes with a call-to-action to develop truly innovative technology to address the limitations of such tools as spreadsheets, statistical- (R) and mathematics- packages (Matlab).

SciLens paves this road with concrete milestones that elicit the storage and functional limitations encountered. They are captured in domain specific examples and provide a frame of reference to push database technology into areas hitertho unexplored. The milestones are cast in a micro-world description for indepth research. Their implementation provide a stepping stone for real-life deployment and progress monitoring. Feedback, improvements and articulation of core challenges are called for.


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