There is a new release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio and it includes Pyvot: a connector to Excel that allow data transfer and manipulation – check out the tutorial. It also has a PyKinect, to leverage Kinect for new natural user interactions (NUIs)…
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For the last couple of days at Supercomputer 2011 we’ve been demoing WorldWide Telescope being driven via Kinect for Windows – probably the single largest Kinect driven application out there. While we’ve done something like this before (ie. Mix’11), this time we partnered with Scalable Display Technologies and NVIDIA to create a 18x7 foot single machine display. The whole demo is powered with one PC, connected to two Nvidia Quadro Plex devices to drive 8 projectors. The projector alignment and blending was accomplished via the Scalable Display Manager software. This made it one very large desktop – if you look in the bottom right corner of the screen you can see the notification bar
Beyond it being a great demo, it also showcased how this could be built with shipping technologies in a short time.
Earlier today I had the pleasure to give the kickoff talk for the release of The Fourth Paradigm book in Portuguese. Being able to highlight the thinking's of Jim Gray on which the book is based and the scientists who wrote articles for the book was a real privilege for me.
It was also fortuitous and coincidental that earlier this week AGU EOS published the article Mountain hydrology, snow color, and the fourth paradigm by Jeff Dozier from University of California, Santa Barbara
EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 92, NO. 43, PAGE 373, 2011 doi:10.1029/2011EO430001