From msozacademic's WebLog -
Windows Academic Program Components
• Windows Operating System Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK): The CRK was developed by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon (authors of Windows Internals, 4th edition) with Professor Polze from Potsdam University. The Kit is a collection of instructional material, including lectures, labs, quizzes, and assignments, that follows the ACM/IEEE-CS Operating System Body of Knowledge (BOK) to illustrate OS concepts using Microsoft Windows XP / Server 2003 as a case study. The CRK materials are available via the Academic Alliance Repository.
• Windows Research Kernel (WRK): The WRK packages core Windows XP x64/Server 2003 SP1 kernel source code with an environment for building and testing experimental versions of the Windows kernel for use in teaching and research. The Windows Research Kernel is available via Academic Alliance Faculty Connection subscription.
• ProjectOZ: ProjectOZ is an operating systems project environment that uses the native kernel interfaces of Windows to provide simple, clean, user-mode abstractions of the CPU, MMU, trap mechanism, and physical memory that can be used to perform experiments in operating systems principles. ProjectOZ is an alternative to Unix-based simulators for exploring operating system principles. The ProjectOZ materials are available via the Academic Alliance Repository.
Add your Sensor Data to the SenseWeb via the MSRSense toolkit that is now available for download:
MSRSense Toolkit –
The MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit (MSR Sense) is a collection of software tools that allow users to collect, process, archive, and visualize data from a sensor network. The current version contains: a reconfigurable microserver execution environment (mSEE), a small library implementing signal processing and event detection algorithms, an extension to Excel 2003 (Senscel) to import, visualize and processing sensor data, and interface to SQL server to archive and retrieve data, and a microserver interaction console (mSIC) for users to configure and control microservers. All software is implemented in C# under visual studio 2005 and .NET framework 2.0. The software is release under Microsoft Research Shared Source License (MSR-SSL) Agreement.
The MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit (MSR Sense) is a collection of software tools that allow users to collect, process, archive, and visualize data from a sensor network. The current version contains: a reconfigurable microserver execution environment (mSEE), a small library implementing signal processing and event detection algorithms, an extension to Excel 2003 (Senscel) to import, visualize and processing sensor data, and interface to SQL server to archive and retrieve data, and a microserver interaction console (mSIC) for users to configure and control microservers. All software is implemented in C# under visual studio 2005 and .NET framework 2.0.
The software is release under Microsoft Research Shared Source License (MSR-SSL) Agreement.
MSR SenseWeb –
SenseWeb is a research portal that lets users visualize and query real-time data using a geographical interface such as Windows Live Local and allows data owners to easily publish their live data using a web service interface.
Just ran across the Lang .Net 2006 Symposium - is a forum for discussion on programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development environments. The conference will be held on the Microsoft Campus, July 31 through Aug. 2.
To follow-up on the discussions at the MSR Faculty Summit earlier this week - here is some other resources for getting up to speed on SharePoint 2007:
SharePoint Server 2007
I ran across Doug Mahugh Blog and he has some great pointers and resources for information on Open XML file formats for Excel 2007 and Word 2007.
Our team Technical Computing team is looking for a Senior Program Manager/Architect to help provide in-depth technical recommendations to TCI partners in scientific and engineering communities to assist technology integration planning, resolve interoperability issues and provide feedback to Microsoft product teams in terms of research computational requirements; drive Microsoft participation in technology standards discussions and collaborate with key stakeholders both internally and externally to ensure Microsoft competitiveness in the technical computing space worldwide.
More details on the position at: Senior Program Manager/Architect
MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image. Download Group Shot here.
Interesting article on MSDN - Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real
Eliminate the impedance mismatch for both applications and data services like reporting, analysis, and replication offered as part of the SQL Server product by raising the level of abstraction from the logical (relational) level to the conceptual (entity) level.
This is a good resource for folks looking to create Smart Client apps - Smart Client Software Factory
With the Smart Client Software Factory, architects and developers can quickly incorporate many of the proven practices and patterns of building composite smart client applications. These practices and patterns have been identified during the development of many smart client applications and their components. By using the software factory, architects and developers can focus their efforts on business opportunities and create smart client applications that effectively address the needs of their organizations. The Smart Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite smart client applications. These applications have one or more of the following characteristics: They have a rich user interface that takes advantage of the power of the Microsoft Windows desktop. They connect to multiple back-end systems to exchange data with them. They present information coming from multiple and diverse sources through an integrated user interface, so the data looks as if it came from one back-end system. They take advantage of local storage and processing resources to enable operation during periods of no network connectivity or intermittent network connectivity. They are easily deployed and configured.
With the Smart Client Software Factory, architects and developers can quickly incorporate many of the proven practices and patterns of building composite smart client applications. These practices and patterns have been identified during the development of many smart client applications and their components.
By using the software factory, architects and developers can focus their efforts on business opportunities and create smart client applications that effectively address the needs of their organizations.
The Smart Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite smart client applications. These applications have one or more of the following characteristics:
They have a rich user interface that takes advantage of the power of the Microsoft Windows desktop. They connect to multiple back-end systems to exchange data with them. They present information coming from multiple and diverse sources through an integrated user interface, so the data looks as if it came from one back-end system. They take advantage of local storage and processing resources to enable operation during periods of no network connectivity or intermittent network connectivity. They are easily deployed and configured.
Here’s a detailed description of what citation and bibliography features are available in Word 2007.
Academic features: citation & bibliography tools
Check out the new site on the TechNet Script Center, Scripting for Compute Cluster Server at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/ccs.mspx.
I missed the announcement from TechEd and just ran across the Office 2007 contest – Develop Without Borders Challenge – the challenge is to design an application to help your favorite charity on Office 2007 by August 31st.
Ran across this from a number of blog posts...
Virtual PC Is Now Free! Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free. Microsoft is also offering the free download of Virtual PC 2007, with support for Windows Vista in 2007.
Virtual PC Is Now Free!
Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free. Microsoft is also offering the free download of Virtual PC 2007, with support for Windows Vista in 2007.
Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services V3 and SharePoint Server 2007
Get a high-level overview of how Windows SharePoint Services V3 implements workflows.
MSN Messenger® Invasion of the Robots Contest - Home
Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational robots, or BOTs, for MSN® Messenger and Windows Live™ Messenger.
From Port25 IdMU blog post:
Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide Released The Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide was released this week. This guide details step-by-step instructions for providing security and directory services for mixed Windows and UNIX environments using AD.
Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide Released
The Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide was released this week. This guide details step-by-step instructions for providing security and directory services for mixed Windows and UNIX environments using AD.
CodePlex, Microsoft's community development Web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers around the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.
The IW Center - Community portal for information workers - has "Prodcasts"
Port25 - Communications from the Open Source Lab @ Microsoft
ODF Add-in for Word 2007 - Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge between the Open XML Formats and Open Document Format(ODF). As the first component of this initiative, the ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 allows to Open & Save ODF documents in Word.
On MSDN
Get the New Robotics Studio CTP
Get the SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition CTP
Editor's Note: Get Ready for AJAX
A New Developer Site for Windows Live
.NET Rocks! - Dan Ciruli on Grid Computing
RSS in IE7 and the RSS Platform
Extreme ASP.NET: Asynchronous Web Parts
Federated Identity – Scenarios, Architecture and Implementation
Step by Step: Developing a SQL Mobile Application with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005
The NCSA windows cluster achieved 4.1 Teraflops on 896 processors and a rank of 130 on the June Top500 list – See more at http://windowshpc.net/, data sheet describing the cluster,and this PressPass article.