eScience @ Microsoft
MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External...
Author: eScience Date: 03/11/2009
WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com
The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance, included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York...
Author: eScience Date: 03/02/2009
Microsoft Research TechFest 2009
Today is the first day of the MSR TechFest 2009 – a showcase of MSR technologies – you can see...
Author: eScience Date: 02/24/2009
Using Flickr for Astronomy – and viewing in WWT
The use of online services such as Flickr to help scientists is in its infancy and applications...
Author: eScience Date: 02/20/2009
eclipse4SL: Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight
Just saw a posting that eclipse4SL - the Eclipse tools for Silverlight project is available. It is...
Author: eScience Date: 02/09/2009
The Earth, Stars, and Planets in 3D
One of the coolest new features of the WWT Solstice Borealis Beta (released at the beginning of Jan)...
Author: eScience Date: 01/27/2009
WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit Release -Microsoft Research
With this ADK, users can convert their own astronomical images/data to the format that can be read...
Author: eScience Date: 01/21/2009
Science Images in Photosynth
Here are a few really good synths of scientific images in Photosynth. You can find others...
Author: eScience Date: 01/20/2009
Swearing-in Ceremony on the Web
It will be great to be able to watch the swearing-in ceremony from any computer on the...
Author: eScience Date: 01/19/2009
NodeXL for viewing and analyzing network graphs is available again (formally .NetMap)
NodeXL – the app formally know as .NetMap is available again on CodePlex. NodeXL is a Excel...
Author: eScience Date: 01/16/2009
So you don’t think you can Sing?
Now you can have your own musical accompaniment to match your voice without having to worry about...
Author: eScience Date: 01/08/2009
Photosynth in Silverlight
Very neat to see a experimental Silverlight viewer for Photosynth. Here’s one synth I did while at...
Author: eScience Date: 12/16/2008
eScience Conference in Pictures
Here’s some pictures from the Microsoft eScience Workshop. AutoCollage makes it easy to do :-)...
Author: eScience Date: 12/11/2008
Document Interop – OpenXML to HTML
It’s good to see how the vision of the OpenXML document formats is being more fully realized,...
Author: eScience Date: 12/10/2008
Carole Goble receives 1st Jim Gray eScience award
Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)
Author: eScience Date: 12/09/2008
eScience Unconference
Just finished up the Unconference event – bridging the Microsoft eScience Workshop and the IEEE...
Author: eScience Date: 12/09/2008
InfoMesa Project – Whiteboard for your data
One of neatest apps I’ve see lately is InfoMesa – a project by Sam Batterman – the example is...
Author: eScience Date: 12/09/2008
Interesting Papers from MSR – Nov 2008
Papers from the November 2008 drop Microsoft Research I found quite interesting. Txt-it Notes: Paper...
Author: eScience Date: 12/02/2008
eScience 2008 Unconference Signup
The signup for the Unconference session at the 2008 eScience Conference is available. ...
Author: eScience Date: 12/01/2008
GrayWulf (on SQL Server) wins SC’08 Storage Challenge
Congratulations to Alex Szalay and his amazing team at JHU for winning the SC’08 Storage Challenge –...
Author: eScience Date: 11/26/2008
Thank-you Fargo!!!
So here I am in Austin attending SuperComputing’08 posting about WALL•E and WWT and then noticed...
Author: eScience Date: 11/19/2008
WALL•E's Universe in WorldWide Telescope
Now this is fun science - Microsoft Research and Disney•Pixar team up to offer guided tours of the...
Author: eScience Date: 11/18/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 cracks Top 10 in Top 500 list
The latest Top 500 list was released at Supercomputing Conference (SC08) in Austin, Texas today and...
Author: eScience Date: 11/18/2008
HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Academic Program
Great opportunity to get a special academic discount on Windows HPC Server 2008. ...
Author: eScience Date: 11/10/2008
Fun with Blog Maps – Oh North Dakota where are you?
It’s been a rainy Friday – so for fun I wanted to see how my WorldMap is doing. I have hits...
Author: eScience Date: 11/07/2008
University of Washington eScience Institute Rollout Event
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure to participate and present at the UW eScience Institute...
Author: eScience Date: 11/06/2008
Electric Vehicle Conversion Project
It’s great to run across professors that try ideas out – especially outside of their field. ...
Author: eScience Date: 11/03/2008
Virtual Earth in full view
Now this is a way to view Virtual Earth – talk about an immersive experience. I would like to...
Author: eScience Date: 10/28/2008
.NetMap @ Harvard
Marc Smith gave a (Excel) .NetMap online tutorial at Harvard this morning hosted by David Lazar of...
Author: eScience Date: 10/27/2008
PDC watch remotely – Great News
This is really good to hear…being able to watch some of the PDC sessions remotely. I’m looking...
Author: eScience Date: 10/26/2008
DataDepot – Blogging, Visualize, and Engage with your Data
Looking for a way to interact around data – take a look at the MSR DataDepot, a place to communicate...
Author: eScience Date: 10/24/2008
Blogging in Real Ink – electronic notebook?
Earlier this year I stumbled upon Adapx’s Capturx™ for Microsoft® Office OneNote® – which is a...
Author: eScience Date: 10/24/2008
Asus Windows CE PND sports heads-up display
I can’t wait to see one of these in action in person…I’m willing to beta test :-) Asus announced a...
Author: eScience Date: 10/13/2008
HPC - MPI.NET 1.0 Is Now Released...!
PhilPen has posted that the folks at Indiana University have released MPI.NET: High Performance C#...
Author: eScience Date: 10/08/2008
Touchless
Touchless is a fun and very cool release available from Office Labs – all you need is a webcam and...
Author: eScience Date: 10/07/2008
Science News to justify half a bar of chocolate per week - lowers risk of heart disease
I only wish the study coming out of the Moli-sani Project being run by Research Laboratories of the...
Author: eScience Date: 09/24/2008
Image Composite Editor (ICE) available for download
The Interactive Visual Media Group from Microsoft Research has released Image Composite Editor (ICE)...
Author: eScience Date: 09/23/2008
Virtual Earth 6.2 Technical Webcast
Here are a couple of upcoming Virtual Earth Webcasts to highlight the uses and details of the...
Author: eScience Date: 09/17/2008
Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
With all the activity in different science domains – I always keep an eye on the Science Cribsheets...
Author: eScience Date: 09/15/2008
My Clown Club Card
Thanks to Office OFFline I was able to create my own Shoe Circus Clown Club card as featured in the...
Author: eScience Date: 09/12/2008
Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use. The SQL...
Author: eScience Date: 09/04/2008
F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download. F# is a functional programming...
Author: eScience Date: 08/30/2008
New drop of .NetMap available
There’s a new release (1.0.1.52) of .NetMap available – which includes both the Excel Template and...
Author: eScience Date: 08/28/2008
Accessible Research blog
Sam Stokes has spun up a blog to make research more accessible to students and though's of us that...
Author: eScience Date: 08/27/2008
OLAP and Scientific Data
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I...
Author: eScience Date: 08/20/2008
Windows HPC and Pixar animation software RenderMan
It’s great to see that Pixar will be releasing RenderMan on the upcoming release of Windows HPC...
Author: eScience Date: 08/20/2008
The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI – Registration Open
The registration site for this year’s Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI is now open and the call...
Author: eScience Date: 08/20/2008
pptPlex from OfficeLabs – making PowerPoint fun again
I’ve been using the internal drop of pptPlex from OfficeLabs for awhile and really enjoy using the...
Author: eScience Date: 08/15/2008
Live Mesh Video
I really like the functionality provided by Live Mesh…and the video below helps gets the vision...
Author: eScience Date: 08/13/2008