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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: eScience Date: 12/10/2008
Carole Goble receives 1st Jim Gray eScience award
Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)
Author: eScience Date: 12/09/2008
eScience Unconference
Just finished up the Unconference event – bridging the Microsoft eScience Workshop and the IEEE...
Author: 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: 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: eScience Date: 12/02/2008
eScience 2008 Unconference Signup
The signup for the Unconference session at the 2008 eScience Conference is available. ...
Author: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: eScience Date: 09/17/2008
Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
With all the activity in different science domains – I always keep an eye on the Science Cribsheets...
Author: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: eScience Date: 08/13/2008