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We stand at the edge of a new era; one in which our ability to take data far outstrips our ability to reduce it by human intensive means. We must develop methods of analyzing and classifying our observations so that we do not just arrange them according to what we know, but describe them in ways that allow us to increase our knowledge.

It will be a very long time before machines can look at data with the genius of a Morgan or a Zwicky, but that must be our goal. To achieve this we must build machines which interact with humans at ever increasingly higher levels of sophistication and knowledge.

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Kurtz, M.J. (1989). Classification and knowledge. In: Heck, A., Murtagh, F. (eds) Knowledge-Based Systems in Astronomy. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 329. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51044-3_19

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