Tom Barclay

Tom Barclay is a researcher in Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center

Email: tbarclay@microsoft.com
Office: 455 Market St., Suite 1690, San Francisco, CA, 94105
Phone: (415) 778-8223
Fax: (425) 706-7329

I've been with Microsoft since 1994 and in Microsoft Research since 1996. My research interests are in large, scalable database systems.

Projects

• Microsoft TerraServer (TerraServer-USA): I was the lead on the development of a large (4+ TB) geo-spatial database containing high resolution imagery of the United States provided by the US Geological Survey and running on a farm of low-cost, white-box PCs dubbed "storage bricks". Click Microsoft TerraServer to visit the TerraServer web site.
• TerraService.NET Web Service: This past year, with help from Jeffrey Richter and George Brother, we added a programmable Web Service to the TerraServer database. The http://TerraService.net web site describes the capabilities of the TerraServer Web Service and provides examples of how to use it in your applications.
• Currently, I am working with the Yukon project team on investigating spatial support for SQL Server.

Papers

• TerraServer Bricks – A High Availability Cluster Alternative
  
  Author(s): Tom Barclay; Jim Gray; Wyman Chong
  Published: October 2004
  
• TerraServer Cluster and SAN Experience
  
  Author(s): Tom Barclay; Jim Gray
  Published: July 2004
  
• Adding the EPSG:4326 Geographic Longitude-Latitude Projection to TerraServer
  
  Author(s): Siddharth Jain; Tom Barclay
  Published: August 2003
  
• TerraService.NET: An Introduction to Web Services
  
  Author(s): Tom Barclay; Jim Gray; Eric Strand; Steve Ekblad; Jeffrey Richter
  Published: June 2002
  
• Microsoft TerraServer: A Spatial Data Warehouse
  
  Author(s): Tom Barclay; Jim Gray; Don Slutz
  Published: June 1999
  
• The Microsoft TerraServer^TM
  
  Author(s): Tom Barclay
  Published: June 1998
  

Presentations

• TerraServer PowerPoint presentation: contains a complete overview of TerraServer including the architecture of the SQL Server database, the web site, and an overview of the Web Service application.
• Microsoft TerraServer SIGMOD 2000 Presentation: presented at the June 2000 SIGMOD conference in Dallas, Texas

Affiliations

• Committee member on the National Academy of Science Computer Science and TeleCommunications Board Committee on "Workshop on Intersections Between Geospatial Information and Information Technology".
• Formerly Microsoft representative on the OpenGIS Consortia Technical Committee, June 1999 - June 2002.

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