Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft
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Trouble with Excel 2013 PowerPivot or PowerView - add-ins are not available in Ribbon view?
Since I’m continually running the latest betas or versions of software and add-ins – every once in a...
Date: 04/21/2014
TED2014–Virtual Reality in Space
TED2014 30 year Celebration and Anniversary Vancouver, BC March 17th – 21st Last week the Microsoft...
Date: 03/28/2014
Windows Azure training for researchers–Now available online
Today we’ve made online versions of the Windows for Azure training for researchers available to...
Date: 03/28/2014
Science in the Cloud: Building cloud virtual machines for research
Coming in March – there is going to be a special Azure for Research Request for Proposals – focusing...
Date: 02/07/2014
“Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” E-Book
Just saw the announcement of the e-book “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” – a good...
Date: 02/04/2014
Cloud Design Patterns now available
Great news for folks looking for guidance on developing apps for the Azure Cloud – take a look at...
Date: 01/28/2014
Data Science in a Box using IPython–up and running on Azure with LinuxVM
Interested in getting up and running quickly with data science computing using Python and IPython...
Date: 04/29/2013
Behind the WorldWide Telescope Theater at SXSW
This past weekend at SXSW, Microsoft and the WorldWide Telescope team worked with NASA, Northrop...
Date: 03/13/2013
Two Big Telescopes in Austin for SXSW and one Big Screen
Today starts South by Southwest Interactive and the Worldwide Telescope team is working with NASA...
Date: 03/08/2013
Connecting the Science dots at TechFest 2013
During this years annual Microsoft Research TechFest, where Microsoft Research exposes compelling...
Date: 03/07/2013
More Excel 2013 Goodies - Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office
After posting about Data Explorer yesterday – I thought about other add-ins for Excel that make hard...
Date: 02/28/2013
A tool for Data Science - Microsoft "Data Explorer" Preview for Excel now available
Functionality and features for Excel 2013 just keeps getting better, especially when you realize...
Date: 02/28/2013
Start PowerPivot in Excel 2013 add-in
This is a good article if you’ve updated to Excel 2013 and want to update your PowerPivot models....
Date: 02/04/2013
Astronomy to go: UW readies new portable planetarium | Powered by Worldwide Telescope
It’s great to see the University of Washington planetarium showcased in this UW Today...
Date: 01/30/2013
AGU 2012–Environment and large displays are fun
This week many of us from the Microsoft Research Earth, Energy and Science team are down at AGU2012...
Date: 12/04/2012
Big Compute comes to Windows Azure (via HPC Pack 2012)
Last week at SuperCompter2012, the Windows Azure team showed off it’s Big Compute support by placing...
Date: 11/21/2012
Build 2012 on Channel 9–great streaming info
Even if you weren’t able to get a registration for //Build/ 2012 – the streaming sessions are...
Date: 10/31/2012
Fully data-constrained terrestrial carbon model - view and comment on the paper
If you’re interested in how carbon impacts the overall climate models – you’ll really be interested...
Date: 10/05/2012
Continuing a Commitment to Carbon Disclosure
It’s really good to see Microsoft’s commitment to reducing the companies carbon footprint being...
Date: 09/17/2012
Rename file extension with PowerShell
Last week I ended up finding that one of my directories of pictures lost their file extensions – so...
Date: 09/17/2012
Presenting around the world
I just finished a seminar presentation to Monash University while sitting in Redmond – the slides...
Date: 09/06/2012
Windows Azure and SQL DB materials–curriculum and development
I just saw that some new Curriculum materials for Windows Azure and SQL Databases in the Faculty...
Date: 08/24/2012
Layerscape Tour: Malowane niebo–Beautiful
It’s inspiring to see someone take technology and combine with art and artistic abilities to make...
Date: 06/12/2012
Fun with Cliplets–Video and Pics
For some Friday fun, I was playing with Cliplets from Microsoft Research – it let’s you combine...
Date: 06/08/2012
OData–Open Data Technical Committee Proposed to OASIS for standardization
This is great to hear that Microsoft along with Technology Leaders Support OASIS Standards for Open...
Date: 05/24/2012
PSH5X–A Windows PowerShell module for HDF5
Just saw the announcement from the HDF5 group that they’ve released PSH5X-a Windows PowerShell...
Date: 05/17/2012
Smart Buildings pilot at Microsoft–energy analytics
There’s a good cover story article on Microsoft’s Smart Building Pilot Program in the latest The...
Date: 01/16/2012
Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)
Don’t miss the Learn Windows Azure event next Tuesday, Dec 13th…. Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday...
Date: 12/09/2011
"Data Explorer"– Clean, Mashup, and Publish your Science Data
Dealing with scientific data can be challenging – especially since it’s in many different formats,...
Date: 12/08/2011
WorldWide Telescope and Kinect on really big screen at SC11
For the last couple of days at Supercomputer 2011 we’ve been demoing WorldWide Telescope being...
Date: 11/16/2011
Develop with Python in Visual Studio, connect with Kinect and Excel
There is a new release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio and it includes Pyvot: a connector to...
Date: 11/05/2011
The Fourth Paradigm book now available in Portuguese
Earlier today I had the pleasure to give the kickoff talk for the release of The Fourth Paradigm...
Date: 11/03/2011
Big Data and LINQ in CACM
Just read the The World According to LINQ article in October’s Communications of the ACM – Erik...
Date: 10/26/2011
.NET Bio: the new name for Microsoft Biology Foundation and now open source
Microsoft Research is putting .NET Bio, a bioinformatics toolkit into the Outercurve Foundation,...
Date: 10/18/2011
PDFs on Docs.com
I just realized that Docs.com has support for PDFs – so to test it out, I put up a copy of The...
Date: 09/29/2011
Back from time off…more fun to come
Today summer seemed to come to an end – the “marine layer” moved in from the coast and brought cool...
Date: 09/13/2011
Pushing Data into WWT - via Excel and LCapi
Last week the Worldwide Telescope team put out some tools to support astronomy and earth-system...
Date: 05/17/2011
AstroViz 2011 Workshop–June 4 & 5
If you are a professional or student interested in visualizing astronomy data then you should not...
Date: 05/06/2011
Geospatial data support in OData–Strawman proposal
For those of you interested in Geospatial issues – check out the new strawman proposal for adding...
Date: 05/04/2011
BI Labs and Fuzzy Match for Excel
Just saw that the Business Intelligence folks have setup BI Labs – It will be interesting to see all...
Date: 04/29/2011
Celebrating an Out-of-This-World Earth Day guest post on Microsoft Research Connections Blog
For Earth Day last Friday I did a guest blog post talking about the great collaboration we had with...
Date: 04/26/2011
Finding Hubble in the WorldWide Telescope
The folks at HubbleSite.org have a good overview on how to view the magnificent images in WorldWide...
Date: 04/25/2011
WWT and Kinect Demo at MIX–the universe at your fingertips.
Ever wonder when you’d see the “Minority Report” beyond the silver screen? Beyond the FX...
Date: 04/13/2011
OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010
More OData support by products…really neat to see… OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 I’m...
Date: 04/13/2011
New update of Microsoft ICE– Cool video to panorama feature
The latest update to Microsoft ICE – Image Composite Editor is available and it has a feature I’ve...
Date: 04/05/2011
Free Microsoft Biology Framework Workshop at RENCI in North Carolina April 19-20
Really good event to go to if you’d like to hear more about MBF… We recently posted a preview of the...
Date: 03/24/2011
Holiday Card–Seasons Greeting
Here’s my Holiday Card for 2010 – put together in 5 minutes using www.freeholidayphoto.com – thanks...
Date: 12/02/2010
Climate Prediction Leverages Home Computers for Weather At Home
I posted an article on the MSR External Research blog about a project MSR has sponsored for the past...
Date: 11/23/2010
SC 2010: WinHPC Server links to the Cloud & breaks Petaflop Barrier
Just sat through Ryan Waite’s talk at SC2010 showcasing some of the new features in WinHPC – being...
Date: 11/16/2010