eScience @ Microsoft
Sphere Project - A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
Today at the MSR Faculty Summit – I was able to play with the Sphere Project, and it’s a real unique...
Author: eScience Date: 07/29/2008
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Released
PHP developers can now integrate data from SQL Server now that the driver is available for...
Author: eScience Date: 07/29/2008
Overlaying images on Virtual Earth without tiling
One thing a lot of people complain about web mapping applications is having to create tiles to be...
Author: eScience Date: 07/28/2008
"How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
One of the discussions that frequently happens at the eScience/Science 2.0 type meetings is how does...
Author: eScience Date: 07/24/2008
How the WorldWide Telescope works
Jon Udell gets the details from Jonathan Fay (no relation) on how WWT works. How the WorldWide...
Author: eScience Date: 07/23/2008
Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis
It's really good to see that the datamining work (ProDA) that Cyrus Shahabi of USC is getting more...
Author: eScience Date: 07/23/2008
Fun Images
Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)
Author: eScience Date: 07/23/2008
.NetMap - Released - visualize your Networks (Social, etc) from Excel
.NetMap an Excel plugin and dll is now available (Binaries and Source) on CodePlex – This...
Author: eScience Date: 07/22/2008
Very Cool: make Xbox games, make money
Wish I was creative enough to create a Xbox LIVE Community Games and not only get fame - but fortune...
Author: eScience Date: 07/22/2008
NOAA – 2009 Climate Program Announcement
Just received the Sectoral Applications Research Program announcement from Nancy Beller-Simms at the...
Author: eScience Date: 07/18/2008
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Always looking for interesting papers that educate you on domains - really enjoyed this paper......
Author: eScience Date: 07/17/2008
WorldWide Telescope on Microsoft.com
Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)
Author: eScience Date: 07/11/2008
SCIENCE Article: An Earth Systems Science Agency?
Very interesting article in current issue of Science... The United States faces unprecedented...
Author: eScience Date: 07/10/2008
NGO - Nonprofit Connection
Just ran across the NGO Connection site – this is the place for non-profit orgs in the scientific...
Author: eScience Date: 07/10/2008
Deep Photo at MS Pro Photo Summit
Really neat demo by Michael Cohen (MSR) of Deep Photo at the Pro Photo Summit – uses Virtual Earth...
Author: eScience Date: 07/10/2008
The Petabyte Problem: Scrubbing, Curating and Publishing Big Data
Carol Minton Morris has a good entry on the HatCheck Newsletter on Alex Szalay's keynote,...
Author: eScience Date: 07/03/2008
Environmental Science related activities
Here are some good articles on Environmental Science related activities that our researchers at...
Author: eScience Date: 07/02/2008
WorldWide Telescope is a powerful educational tool — a way of telling compelling stories about the Universe.
An On the Issues Essay came out last week featuring Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard...
Author: eScience Date: 06/30/2008
National Geographic and Stonehenge in Photosynth
Video showing Stonehenge in Photosynth off the National Geographic Magazine site - Stonehenge...
Author: eScience Date: 06/19/2008
DeepEarth - VE and Silverlight Deep Zoom
Just ran across he DeepEarth OpenSource community project on CodePlex - bringing SilverLight 2 Deep...
Author: eScience Date: 06/18/2008
HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
The Top500 list was released and the cluster at NCSA came in at 23rd running a beta of Windows HPC...
Author: eScience Date: 06/18/2008
NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac OS Now Available
Just saw this post that the NY Times Reader for the Mac is available - I'm interested in seeing how...
Author: eScience Date: 05/27/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is available on Microsoft Connect and Ryan Waite goes into detail on...
Author: eScience Date: 05/23/2008
PHP Support in Expression Web 2
Passing this note about PHP support in Expression Web 2.... PHP Support in Expression Web 2 For...
Author: eScience Date: 05/22/2008
WWT - Eclipse
If you'd like to experience a total Eclipse of the Sun - set WWT to 8/1/2008 at 2:23 and put the...
Author: eScience Date: 05/16/2008
WorldWide Telescope - you haven't seen it?
I decided to wait a bit before blogging about the release of WorldWide Telescope (WWT) to see how...
Author: eScience Date: 05/16/2008
Scalable Adaptive Graphical Environment (SAGE) for Windows now available
The good folks at NCMIR - National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research have released a port...
Author: eScience Date: 05/09/2008
The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky
The The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky article by Ian Harvey (CBC news) on WWT -...
Author: eScience Date: 05/09/2008
Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha
Just played the "Kill the Peas" game on the new Popfly Game Creator and it was pretty...
Author: eScience Date: 05/02/2008
Microsoft Releases Speech Recognition Macros for Windows Vista
With the combination of a Vista Tablet PC and these Speech Recognition Macros (thanks Blake) - could...
Author: eScience Date: 04/28/2008
Create Your Own E-Learning
Ran across the release of the Learning Content Development System (LCDS). Would seem to be a...
Author: eScience Date: 04/28/2008
Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1
Savas has been coding again :-) - he's updated the FLUXNET Data set visualization to...
Author: eScience Date: 04/28/2008
4th IEEE Intl. Conference on e-Science, 2008 and Microsoft eScience Workshop
This year the 5th Microsoft eScience workshop will be co-located with Intl. Conference on...
Author: eScience Date: 04/24/2008
Virtual Earth Data Center now powered by Wind
At SC07 I saw a couple of the Container based data centers - it's great to see them in use at the VE...
Author: eScience Date: 04/22/2008
Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight
I was pointed to this on CodePlex - interesting to think how it could be used to enable Science Apps...
Author: eScience Date: 04/19/2008
Word for scientific publishing
Here's an interview Jon Udell did w/ Pablo Fernicola about the Word Addin for Scientific publishing....
Author: eScience Date: 04/18/2008
[Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend; There is Life beyond Files
In a discussion I had today around ways to advance a scientific problem I was reminded of Jim Gray...
Author: eScience Date: 04/08/2008
Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island -Microsoft scientists unveil...
Author: eScience Date: 04/03/2008
Bird's Eye in 3D - Photosynth like
I use maps.live.com allot especially when I'm traveling - but didn't realize about this feature...
Author: eScience Date: 04/03/2008
2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium
Currently heading back from the 2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium setup by GaTech...
Author: eScience Date: 04/01/2008
Open Source at Microsoft
The Open Source at Microsoft site is a really good location for information, resources, and links on...
Author: eScience Date: 03/28/2008
TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
I realized I hadn't posted the link to the TED Talk on the WorldWide Telescope Science...
Author: eScience Date: 03/28/2008
Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling...
Author: eScience Date: 03/28/2008
PubMed Central Article Authoring Add-in
Scientists should find this Word 2007 add-in very useful, especially when submitting to PubMed...
Author: eScience Date: 03/24/2008
What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope?
In case you didn't see the blog entry on ZDNet about WWT What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s...
Author: eScience Date: 02/15/2008
[Paper] Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data
A MSR Tech Report is now available on Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data - Here's...
Author: eScience Date: 02/08/2008
TechREACH - Middle School program to increase interest in STEM
It's great to see programs like TechREACH reaching out to middle school students to get them...
Author: eScience Date: 02/06/2008
Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}
Now this is different and refreshing - maybe we need some comics highlighting the work of...
Author: eScience Date: 01/29/2008