Who does the framework credit with coining the term fourth paradigm, and in what year?
ADr. Gordon Moore, in 1965
BDr. Jim Gray, in 2007
CDr. Nancy Grady, in 2000
DDr. Jim Gray, in 1997
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Dr. Jim Gray, in 2007
1. The framework attributes the term in the same sentence that introduces it: "The fourth paradigm is a term coined by Dr. Jim Gray in 2007."
2. Both halves have to match, which is why the same name appears twice in the options with different years.
3. Gordon Moore and 1965 are also real in this document, but for something else entirely: the 1965 paper estimating that transistor density was doubling every two years, which the framework cites as Moore's Law.
4. Nancy Grady is credited in the document too, in a footnote acknowledging that one of the figures was provided courtesy of her, not for coining any term.
5. The year 2000 belongs to CRISP-DM, the Cross-Industry Standard Process Model for Data Mining, which the framework says was published that year.
_Source: NIST SP 1500-1r2 "NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 1, Definitions" (Oct 2019), p.26 section 5 "Data Science"_
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