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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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 01/29/2008
TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider
Ran across this post on Charlie Calvert's Community Blog using TerraServer's Web Services with...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/29/2008
Silverlight-based cycle stealing
Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/28/2008
Parallel Computing Developer Center
There's a Parallel Computing Developer Center up on MSDN that is great resource for finding ways to...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/28/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 - 1 day training
Here's a good opportunity to get the latest information on the next version of the Windows Compute...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/28/2008
Bill's Last Day Video
In case you didn't get to see the video of Bill's Last day from CES...here's a link to it on Soapbox...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/23/2008
Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
Here's a link to a Russian based project - where they are mining environmental data archives. ...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/22/2008
January update to Science @ Microsoft
The January update to the Technical Computing @ Microsoft site (www.microsoft.com/science) is up:...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/19/2008
MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing
It's great to see a high-performance .net library for writing MPI apps in C#. It would be good...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 01/17/2008
Dinner with a View
Every once in a while you get the privilege to enjoy something you never would have imaged - tonight...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 11/30/2007
Moved into new MSR building
It's been a bit hectic for the last few weeks - which included moving into the new MSR building 99...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 11/29/2007
Microsoft Research SenseCam
Just heard the MSR Sensors and Device Group in Cambridge updated their SenseCam website with...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 11/27/2007
Supercomputing 07
Was at Supercomputing last week - overall the event went really well. There was also a few...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 11/22/2007
eScience group on Facebook
Early this week Savas and I were discussing social networking ideas and we decided to create a...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 11/09/2007
MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth
Just tested out the MapCrucher Beta for VE - it really runs great. As soon as I get a few more...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 10/29/2007
PopFly open to Public Beta
It's great to see that PopFly is now open to a larger audience via it's public beta. I especially...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 10/18/2007
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 - March 3-6, 2008
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 - March 3-6, 2008 in Seattle. Sign up here
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 09/20/2007
Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In
Just ran across this Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In from MSR - great way to scrape data from a web page...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 09/13/2007
HD View updates - now supports FireFox
I think I missed the announcement, but I just saw off of Blake's The Road to Know Where blog the HD...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 09/10/2007
MSR Learning Assessment Toolkit
Yesterday I had a really good discussion with Jamie Cromack on her efforts around putting together a...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/31/2007
C#UNG - C# Universal Network/Graph System
Here's a really cool C# application for displaying graphs from MSR... Microsoft C#UNG (pronounced...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/27/2007
Silverlight Apps
Saw this post by Qixing on the uses of Silverlight in different sites - I'd like to start compiling...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/27/2007
Tafiti - Search and Silverlight experiment
LiveSide has a really good overview of Tafiti a site that utilizes Silverlight as a way to capture...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/21/2007
Code Camp 8 Registration: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
For you eScience folks in the Boston area - here's a real opportunity to hear/see how Silverlight...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/18/2007
Windows Live Folders now Windows Live SkyDrive
I've been waiting for it and now it's available more broadly - a way to share files in the...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/11/2007
Debugging MPI on Windows
Here's a very helpful post I ran across from Volker's blog on debugint MPI application on...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/11/2007
Photosynth - NASA Shuttle
Here's are some amazing collections of images of the Space Shuttle...amazing technology. Current...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/09/2007
RESTful architecture of Microsoft Robotics Studio « Jon Udell
Ran across Jon Udell's screencast on the Robotics Studio and is' RESTful architecture...I've seen...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/09/2007
Dual Boot CCS and Linux Whitepaper
Just saw VolkerW post info on the whitepaper to help understand how to setup a cluster to dual boot...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/07/2007
Abstracts extension for eScience Workshop
There was some confusion on where to post abstracts for the eScience Workshop - so the deadline was...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/04/2007
SQL Server 2008 info
The latest version of TechNet Flash has some good pointers to details on SQL Server 2008 and the CTP...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/27/2007
[Wired] Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
Wired Magazine has a really good article on the search for Jim Gray and his boat Tenacious and all...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/24/2007
Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available!
I wrote about the Data mining Addins previously - Data Mining for the rest of us... and now you can...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/23/2007
Mobile Search V2 released - Improved Navigation, Cache, Movie Searching, GPS, Traffic reporting and more!
I've been using Mobile Search since it was initially released and I find it essential looking for...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/20/2007
Virtual Earth / Live Maps: beautiful 3D images of Niagara Falls
Check out the beautiful VE imagery of Niagara Falls, I ran across it on the VE blog...especially...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/20/2007
Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
Thanks to Alex Szalay (JHU) for pointing me to GalaxyZoo - now you can help classify galaxies. This...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/12/2007
Matlab to OneNote
Ran across this OneNote PowerToy on Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog that allows you to output Matlab to...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/11/2007
Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing Projects
I meant to do an entry on this paper by Stuart Ozer (MSR) and David Kim & David Baker...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/09/2007
Silverlight 1.1 2D Physics
Very cool demo of a Silverlight and a 2D Physics engine... Silverlight 1.1 2D Physics May 22nd, 2007...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 07/07/2007