Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft
eScience & Technical Computing - Web Services and Scientific Research
WIndows netbook runs on AA batteries
Just saw this posting on WindowsForDevices.com for the the Gecko EduBook that will be available in...
Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 03/25/2009
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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 12/10/2008
Carole Goble receives 1st Jim Gray eScience award
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 12/09/2008
eScience Unconference
Just finished up the Unconference event – bridging the Microsoft eScience Workshop and the IEEE...
Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 12/02/2008
eScience 2008 Unconference Signup
The signup for the Unconference session at the 2008 eScience Conference is available. ...
Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 09/17/2008