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Mysterious object being built in garage

Deep in one of the garages on campus – I ran across this project being built…a modern Stonehenge? maybe the spinal tap version of Stonehenge? View Full Album Read More...

Published 08-21-2009 10:54 AM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download

Project Trident CTP is now available for download . Project Trident is a scientific workflow workbench MSR External Research has been working on for the past few years, which allows scientists to analyze large, diverse datasets. It’s built...

Published 07-14-2009 6:58 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Science, Cool Software, Research, SQL Server, Workflow

Environment and Energy Workshop at Faculty Summit 2009

For the past two days at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit , we hare hosted a Environment and Energy Workshop to look at areas where computing and IT can help solve some of these grand challenges. Output from the workshop will be posted on the...

Published 07-14-2009 6:35 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Conference, Environment

New drop of NodeXL available

There’s a new drop (v 1.0.1.86) of NodeXL Excel template available. Read More...

Published 06-09-2009 1:46 AM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Bing Trucks

I’ve been seeing the Bing Trucks around town – take a look if you haven’t seen them Read More...

Published 06-05-2009 3:40 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Search

Wow - DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom

Just tried out the DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – it’s pretty amazing – brings together Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom. I tested it out with some Astronomy photos… dfd Read More...

Published 04-16-2009 12:46 AM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Cool Software, Viz

WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com

The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance , included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from...

Published 03-02-2009 11:49 AM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Science, Viz, Research, eScience, WWT

Microsoft Research TechFest 2009

Today is the first day of the MSR TechFest 2009 – a showcase of MSR technologies – you can see pictures from TechFest. One of the demos I’m loosely tied to is Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector – which utilizes WorldWide Telescope projected...

Published 02-24-2009 1:31 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Viz, Research, WWT

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 utilizing commodity based solutions will continue to pick up momentum. I especially like the integration and the ease of use – science should be about...

Published 02-20-2009 5:55 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Science, Cool Software, Research, WWT, Data Analysis

eclipse4SL: Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight

Just saw a posting that eclipse4SL - the Eclipse tools for Silverlight project is available. It is an eclipse plug-in that enables Eclipse developers to use the Eclipse IDE to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight runtime platform...

Published 02-09-2009 3:47 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Cool Software, Silverlight, Tech Interop

New Tools Mobilize Local Data to Study Global Environmental Issues from Berkeley Lab

Here’s a really good article from the folks at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the collaboration MSR has ongoing between LBL and the Berkeley Water Center. It highlights the use of databases for scientific information as Catharine mentions...

Published 02-04-2009 11:06 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Science, Research, eScience, Article, Data Analysis

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) is the ability to see the Earth, Stars, and Planets in a stereoscopic 3D effect . I’ve been using the Anaglyph mode (View | {arrow} | Stereo...

Published 01-27-2009 2:20 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Cool Software, Viz, WWT, Virtual Earth

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 by WWT and share with other WWT users. Can’t wait to see more images/datasets made available. WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit, January...

Published 01-21-2009 5:21 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Science, eScience, Software, WWT

Science Images in Photosynth

Here are a few really good synths of scientific images in Photosynth. You can find others using Microscopes or Biology . And there is even a Dissected Cat if you have a strong stomach. Obelia, polyps, golangia by ppberk Micrographs of powder...

Published 01-20-2009 3:44 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Science, Cool Software, Viz, eScience

Swearing-in Ceremony on the Web

It will be great to be able to watch the swearing-in ceremony from any computer on the internet. That combine with CNN/Photosynth capturing The Moment of the oath should be pretty amazing – can’t wait to see that synth… How it Will Work We’ll take...

Published 01-19-2009 12:45 PM by Dan on eScience & Technical Computing @ Microsoft

Filed under: Silverlight

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