eScience @ Microsoft
What’s an Albedo? (And Why You Should Care)
Here’s a really good article on KQED’s Climate Watch on Albedo and why it’s important in a warming...
Author: eScience Date: 05/05/2010
Is Open Data Protocol (OData) the way to expose Scientific Data?
Lately I’ve been looking at OData – the Open Data Protocol and have been wondering if this is the...
Author: eScience Date: 04/27/2010
Folding@Home on Azure – Distributed Computing
Here’s a good way to get up to speed on WindowsAzure and contribute to a worldwide distributed...
Author: eScience Date: 04/25/2010
WWT Fisheye and spherical mirror projection
In the latest WWT release put out on Tax Day (April 15th) – one of the features that was included...
Author: eScience Date: 04/23/2010
Memories for life – SenseCam available
It’s great to see that the technology behind the SenseCam work out of MSR Cambridge is now available...
Author: eScience Date: 04/23/2010
More Goodies into Windows HPC – cycle stealing, VS2010, Excel 2010, Linux Interop
The article from HPCwire on Microsoft Injects More Goodies into Windows HPC highlights some of...
Author: eScience Date: 04/09/2010
TechNet Creates Silverlight Application as Clearinghouse for Technology Resources
I’m a sucker for good technology and really useful interfaces and applications – I just saw...
Author: eScience Date: 04/07/2010
Bing Earth Day Photo Contest for US Students due April 11th
I hadn’t seen the Bing Earth Day Photo Contest till today…there are some really good prizes for both...
Author: eScience Date: 04/06/2010
Chem4Word : Introducing Chemistry Add-in for Word
For those interested in adding chemical symbols to documents – checkout the Chem4Word project, you...
Author: eScience Date: 04/01/2010
Cloud Computing for Science - AzureMODIS: Accelerating the Pace of Environmental Research
They just published an overview of the great collaboration going in the AzureMODIS project with UC...
Author: eScience Date: 03/30/2010
Bing’s Best Images as desktop background
I do look forward to seeing the daily image Bing has as background on the search page – and was...
Author: eScience Date: 01/18/2010
External Research Team Blog started
The Microsoft Research External Research group has started a blog – the initial post is from Tony...
Author: eScience Date: 01/12/2010
The Fourth Paradigm Book – now available on Amazon – Paperback and Kindle
In addition to downloading the Fourth Paradigm book for free from the Microsoft Research website –...
Author: eScience Date: 01/06/2010
Data needs to be Discoverable, Accessible, and Consumable
While the Data Deluge is upon on the scientific communities, how to manage and share the scientific...
Author: eScience Date: 12/15/2009
FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools by SAP Web 2.0
Very cool integration of Twitter and PowerPoint – good way to have interactive presentations…could...
Author: eScience Date: 12/15/2009
First Annual U.S. Computer Science Education Week
The United States House of Representatives has designated December 6–12 as National Computer Science...
Author: eScience Date: 12/07/2009
TAU – perf tuning for HPC
TAU, the performance tuning OSS software for HPC on Linux has been successfully made available to...
Author: eScience Date: 11/25/2009
Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC
Now what computational scientist wouldn’t want one of these under their desk. I like the...
Author: eScience Date: 11/12/2009
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm:...
Author: eScience Date: 10/16/2009
Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset
Now that AWS is supporting SDSS, there is probably useful integration between the Worldwide...
Author: eScience Date: 09/29/2009
Achieving Climate Sustainability – Article in American Meteorological Society
Bill Gail has written a thoroughly thought provoking piece Achieving Climate Sustainability in the...
Author: eScience Date: 09/25/2009
Project Gemini – Videos available
I previously posted about using Project Gemini as a tool for scientific analysis – as a quick way to...
Author: eScience Date: 08/26/2009
TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient (Silverlight) on their list of 50 Best Websites...
Author: eScience Date: 08/24/2009
Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini”, I was blown away by the technology and...
Author: eScience Date: 08/21/2009
Mysterious object being built in garage
Deep in one of the garages on campus – I ran across this project being built…a modern Stonehenge?...
Author: eScience Date: 08/21/2009
Instant Search - The Real Live Search Bing API experiment
If you’d like to see instant results while you’re typing in your search query try out “The Real Live...
Author: eScience Date: 08/21/2009
SciScope app and code available for download
Earlier today the code behind the SciScope site was made available at SciScope.CodePlex.com. ...
Author: eScience Date: 07/15/2009
Project Tuva: Richard Feynman is now available to all.
Project Tuva, an enhanced video player showcasing Richard Feynman’s “Messenger” lectures is...
Author: eScience Date: 07/15/2009
Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download
Project Trident CTP is now available for download. Project Trident is a scientific workflow...
Author: eScience Date: 07/14/2009
Environment and Energy Workshop at Faculty Summit 2009
For the past two days at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, we hare hosted a Environment and...
Author: eScience Date: 07/14/2009
Preview the upcoming Eclipse of the Sun in WWT
On July 22nd there will be a total eclipse of the Sun that will last for over 6 mins that is visible...
Author: eScience Date: 07/06/2009
eScience Workshop 2009 – Call for Papers
The 2009 eScience Workshop will be held at the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon...
Author: eScience Date: 07/06/2009
A “Search Taste Test” – do you really know the difference?
Michael Kordahi created a way to see how Bing search results compare to the other big search players...
Author: eScience Date: 06/09/2009
Adding quarters to the innovation machine
I really enjoyed Dan Reed’s latest posting - HPC: Making a Small Fortune - and the need for real...
Author: eScience Date: 06/09/2009
New drop of NodeXL available
There’s a new drop (v 1.0.1.86) of NodeXL Excel template available. Cross Posted from Dan...
Author: eScience Date: 06/09/2009
Bing Trucks
I’ve been seeing the Bing Trucks around town – take a look if you haven’t seen them Cross Posted...
Author: eScience Date: 06/05/2009
Citizen Science Impact: Hanny’s Voorwerp and the Galaxy Zoo
If you ever wonder what how normal citizens can have an impact in science – take a listen to the...
Author: eScience Date: 05/21/2009
WIndows netbook runs on AA batteries
Just saw this posting on WindowsForDevices.com for the the Gecko EduBook that will be available in...
Author: eScience Date: 05/12/2009
Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
Graywulf is the natural evolution of Beowulf Clusters – it brings together HPC clusters and...
Author: eScience Date: 05/08/2009
Math and equations in Office
One of the most hidden features in Word 2007 is the equation editor – it allows you to input...
Author: eScience Date: 05/08/2009
Out of this World - NASA - International Space Station Photosynth collections
NASA released some out of the world Photosynth collections today – highlighting the International...
Author: eScience Date: 05/07/2009
new CloudApp(): Azure™ Developer Challenge
The Azure folks have setup the new CloudApp() challenge – I’d like to see some Science apps created...
Author: eScience Date: 05/05/2009
Windows 7 Federated Search Providers
I just updated two of my machines to Windows 7 RC and one of the neatest features is the ability to...
Author: eScience Date: 05/04/2009
“Cophenhagen” – a user experience concept video
Just saw some of these great UI concept ideas by Cullen Dudas’ on istartedsomething and it’s a fun...
Author: eScience Date: 04/17/2009
Wow - DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom
Just tried out the DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – it’s pretty amazing – brings together Azure,...
Author: eScience Date: 04/16/2009
100 hours of Astronomy at Galaxy Zoo – Join in
As part of IYA - Galaxy Zoo is working on 1 million classification clicks in 100 hours – ends on...
Author: eScience Date: 04/02/2009
SharePoint Designer Available for Free
Since I utilize SharePoint Designer allot for editing internal SharePoint sites…this is a really...
Author: eScience Date: 04/02/2009
WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been...
Author: eScience Date: 03/25/2009