Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies
Sam Stokes writes about Research in a way that is accessibile by students in College or considering their College/University Career or someone who is a life long learner!
Learning how to test your latest game or software project
Oh this is going to get a lot of views. So thank you for reading this post about software...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/06/2011
Microsoft software development tool released for direct use on Linux and Mac (Apple)
Well, the software development tool that was released is F#, and it was released a few years ago, so...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/05/2011
Climate Research Unit, a good source of data, and a way to show your ability
If you are interested in the so-called Climate Gate or Global Warming or Climate Change, or are just...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/04/2011
Don’t you wish the ClimateGate scientists did a better job of sharing their information?
Seriously, how disappointed were you when the ClimateGate memos came out? ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/04/2011
Nobel Prize Winner Speaks: Dr. Feynman and Project Tuva
These videos from the early days of television, although as I recall it seemed like leading edge...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/03/2011
Microsoft Biology Foundation Coding Contest
Wow, what a way to show off your talents as a software developer, biologist or just kick some...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/03/2011
Malware attack specifically targets Mac users, NIST reports 379 vulnerabilities over past 3 months, get your free anti-virus from Microsoft!
Seriously, I heard Leo Laporte (or is it LaPorte), on Saturday remark that viruses are usually...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/02/2011
I ate humans: Artificial Intelligence improves your Windows Phone 7
Check out Microsoft Research article at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/29/2011
Coolness: 3D scanning using your PHONE!
Microsoft Research has come up with 3D scanning using your phone. Just think you could do a 3D...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/27/2011
F#: Edited articles with code
Don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading edited articles. Oops. This isn’t an edited...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
Software engineering: Improving the academic experience
Wow, is there a more conflicted engineering discipline than Software Engineering. In my game...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/22/2011
Climategate, Global Warming and the Trident Workbench: Galileo and Peer Review
What would Galileo do? I think that he would head out to the local coffee shop, order a large cup of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/21/2011
Internet browser security: On April 21, 2011 Chrome is a loser
According to the NIST.GOV, as of 4/21/2011, the security bugs in browsers for the past three months...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/21/2011
Research: Kinect for Windows SDK beta
For natural user interface researchers this is good news! To be able to utilize the Kinect for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/21/2011
University of Wisconsin, Madison finds GIANT number of security bugs during Windows 7 production
In a paper titled: Incremental Compositional Dynamic Test Generation, researchers from the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/20/2011
Largest use of Whitebox Fuzzers finds GIANT number of security bugs in Windows 7
This was a draft that got released by accident, the earlier blog post is the corrected one with more...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/20/2011
Research: What is Automated Reasoning
If we are going to discuss software engineering over time, then we got to start with the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/20/2011
Online Programming Tools from Microsoft Research: Z3, where do you use it?
Z3 may bring back memories of Modula-2, and it should there are a number of similarities. Z3...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/18/2011
Online programming tools from Microsoft Research
Research is doing some interesting things and here they are. Also, these projects are quite...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/14/2011
FREE SDK: Microsoft Research Imagine Cup briefing about Windows Phone Apps and Cloud Technology, Project Hawaii
Windows Phone 7 is well suited to front end cloud based applications, and Microsoft Research has...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/08/2011
Kinect: Researcher briefs the ADEs at the Imagine Cup
Stewart Tansley gave a briefing on Kinect SDK for Windows that will come out later in the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/08/2011
Radar Detected Asteroids in your soup!
Do Near Earth Asteroids keep you up at night? Here is some reading for you as you look darkly...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/22/2011
This is a really cool panoramic stitching tool!
If you are like me and use the “burst” mode on your camera to take a bunch of pictures on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/03/2010
The Great Conservation Principles, Dr. Feynman explains
Quantum mechanics, gravity, game theory all in the first few seconds of the video. In...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/20/2010
The relation of Mathematics and Physics
The second in the series about Math and Physics. You want to design games, you got to do the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/18/2010
Gravity: It’s the Law, Dr. Feynman explains why…
It’s time to start the school year, and physics is on the mind of many people. Here are the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/16/2010
Climategate: Open Provenance a way to prevent the lack of trust in data and modeling
The Trident workbench is only one way to create and present scientific workflow. To make sure...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/01/2010
Climategate: The future in the past
In a Dec. 1970 article titled: “Polar Ice and the Global Climate Machine” in the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/28/2009
Trident Workbench and SQL Express
I hope you have successfully downloaded and installed Trident Workbench, with the Word Add-in, which...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/10/2009
ClimateGate, Global Warming and Provenance: Trident Workbench
Ok, blowhards like Rush Limbaugh keep stating that the actual science around Global Warming does not...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/07/2009
Using Expression Encoder to convert .WAV files to .WMA files
OMG, this is easy and if you are a student or faculty member that has access to Dreamspark or...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/18/2009
F#: Starting anew, why F# and not FORTRAN
Why FORTRAN and not F#? FORTRAN works well, has a strong history and none of that nasty object...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/20/2009
Feynman speaks from beyond the grave: Messenger Series
Wow! No, no, WOW! The Messenger Series from Cornell brings Feynman back from the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/10/2009
Robo-Ethics: Maybe my last post was wrong
I read the 112 page report found at https://ethics.calpoly.edu/ONR_report.pdf, which exhaustively...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/03/2009
Robo-Ethics: Really? No way…
Recently a few of my colleagues were on Twitter, tweeting about robotic ethics. Seemed pretty...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/30/2009
Microsoft and Nanotechnology?
Oh NO! Take a look at this article on using software with nanotechnology: Designing Structures Made...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/27/2009
Information is currency of the future: Mining Sequential Patterns
Yeah right, have you tried to make money off of the web? Read any of those books on “Secrets...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/23/2009
Researching your queries and clicks
OMG, people tracking what I search and what I click on. Isn’t that an invasion of my...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/21/2009
3DVideo, without the glasses
Check out a good brief article about video and 3D, if can read only one article this summer on 3D...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/14/2009