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MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth
Very neat app that mashes together existing maps with Virtual Earth - the possibilities are endless.
The Virtual Earth API allows web developers to supplement Virtual Earth's maps with pushpins and lines. MapCruncher brings mashups to a whole new level by allowing developers to import entire maps to supplement the existing road and aerial imagery with detailed, application-specific information. The possibilities are endless: bicycle maps, transit maps, national park maps, university maps, antique city maps, or whatever scale maps you personally find interesting. See our Gallery.
xl-caBIG Smart Client
The xl-caBIG Smart Client is a set of extensions to Microsoft Excel 2003 that gives scientists a graphical interface for accessing cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) data-services. caBIG is a National Cancer Institute project that is likely to become the authoritative source of knowledge related to cancer. This smart client gives users intuitive access to caBIG by leveraging their intimacy with the Windows environment and Excel's statistical tools.
Proteus Run Time Integrator (RTI)
The Run Time Integrator (RTI) of Proteus glues Web Services using standard relational algebra operators. It consists of three key components: Plan Generation GUI (PG-GUI), Coordinator (CORD), and the Broker; see RTI components for details. PG-GUI can be used in different domains. For example, one may compose a plan to use Google to spell check an author's name prior to invoking Amazon to retrieve their books. A neuroscientist may compose NCBI and KEGG Web Services into a plan.
LINQ CTP
The May 2006 preview of the Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology contains .NET Framework enhancements to support querying data, VB and C# language extensions, Visual Studio 2005 integration (editing, designing and debugging), plus samples, hands on labs and whitepapers. The LINQ Project The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.
The May 2006 preview of the Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology contains .NET Framework enhancements to support querying data, VB and C# language extensions, Visual Studio 2005 integration (editing, designing and debugging), plus samples, hands on labs and whitepapers.
The LINQ Project The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.
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Interesting paper (Paventhan A., Takeda K, Cox, S. J. and Nicole, D. A., 2006) on using Windows Workflow for Scientific Computing that was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow'06) held in Atlanta, GA. [Leveraging Windows Workflow Foundation for Scientific Workflows in Wind Tunnel Applications]
See more related info at the Southampton Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing
The Windows Compute Cluster Server team has launched the new Windows HPC Community web site. It includes:
The MSR eScience Workshop 2005 talks are now availabe on the ReserachChannel at http://researchchannel.org/prog/displayseries.asp?collid=559 The Research Channel also now houses all the Microsoft Research talks
From Gizmodo – 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel
Some of you who visit Gizmodo at work do so to escape the drudgery of Excel, and we expect those of you reading this for that reason will especially appreciate artist Danielle Aubert’s book 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel, which surprisingly contains exactly what it says it does.
58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel - Gizmodo.