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 Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 03-02-2009
Filed under: Science, Viz, Research, eScience, WWT
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 Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 02-04-2009
Filed under: Science, Research, eScience, Article, Data Analysis
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 Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 01-21-2009
Filed under: Science, eScience, Software, WWT
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 Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 01-20-2009
Filed under: Science, Cool Software, Viz, eScience
Congratulations to Alex Szalay and his amazing team at JHU for winning the SC’08 Storage Challenge – with the entry GrayWulf:Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing . GrayWulf – is implemented with SQL Server 2008 Abstract: Data intensive Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 11-26-2008
Filed under: Conference, Research, eScience, Software
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure to participate and present at the UW eScience Institute kickoff event. I really enjoyed the event and and the vision laid out by Ed Lazowska . The talks by David Baker, Martin Savage and Andy Connolly really highlighted Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Science, Conference, eScience