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Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
With all the activity in different science domains – I always keep an eye on the Science Cribsheets...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 09/15/2008
My Clown Club Card
Thanks to Office OFFline I was able to create my own Shoe Circus Clown Club card as featured in the...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 09/12/2008
Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use. The SQL...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 09/04/2008
F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download. F# is a functional programming...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/30/2008
New drop of .NetMap available
There’s a new release (1.0.1.52) of .NetMap available – which includes both the Excel Template and...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/28/2008
Accessible Research blog
Sam Stokes has spun up a blog to make research more accessible to students and though's of us that...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/27/2008
OLAP and Scientific Data
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/20/2008
Windows HPC and Pixar animation software RenderMan
It’s great to see that Pixar will be releasing RenderMan on the upcoming release of Windows HPC...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/20/2008
The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI – Registration Open
The registration site for this year’s Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI is now open and the call...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/20/2008
pptPlex from OfficeLabs – making PowerPoint fun again
I’ve been using the internal drop of pptPlex from OfficeLabs for awhile and really enjoy using the...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/15/2008
Live Mesh Video
I really like the functionality provided by Live Mesh…and the video below helps gets the vision...
Author: Dan_eScience Date: 08/13/2008
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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 07/29/2008
"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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 07/23/2008
Fun Images
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Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 07/17/2008
WorldWide Telescope on Microsoft.com
Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 07/03/2008
Environmental Science related activities
Here are some good articles on Environmental Science related activities that our researchers at...
Author: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 06/30/2008
National Geographic and Stonehenge in Photosynth
Video showing Stonehenge in Photosynth off the National Geographic Magazine site - Stonehenge...
Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 05/09/2008
The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky
The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky article by Ian Harvey (CBC news) on WWT - not...
Author: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_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: Dan_eScience Date: 04/03/2008