Here's a great opportunity for profs and scientists to learn about .NET development - I first met Joe Hummel many moons ago at SIGCSE where he was teaching a VB tutorial and how it could be used for teaching, talk about bucking the trend. I'm glad to...

Here's a very good paper outlining the work by Marc Holmes (MTC) and Simon Cox on producing an end to end solution using WinCCS (HPC) and many other technologies - it would be great to get feedback from others if they have setup their WinCCS cluster this...

I wish I had this when I was in school...sure would beat that old TI calculator I used :-) ... Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Math 3.0 New software helps students efficiently complete assignments while garnering the knowledge to succeed in the most difficult...

Cool video on the " Golden Age of Scientific Computing " from the Chris Johnson and the folks with the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah. found the link on http://windowshpc.net/ Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog...

Just saw that the Virtual Labs folks are giving away a camera for using the labs... I'd recommend the Business Intelligence: Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis Services Creating a Distributed Application with C# Introducing Content Types for Microsoft...

Nice to see Asirra available and ready to add to web sites... Asirra Asirra is a human interactive proof that asks users to identify photos of cats and dogs. It's powered by over two million photos from our unique partnership with Petfinder.com . Protect...

Great to see this paper on Quantum Dots in Nature Protocols by May Wang and Shuming Nie...along w/ the other authors from GaTech and Emory. I've been tracking their work and it really seems promising on helping to get to the goal of personalized medicine...

Very cool - a light weight way to share applications...brings me back to the NetMeeting days.. There is even integration with Word - could this be the way for academic papers to be written, such that they aren't being emailed back and forth all the time...

Every once in a while you run across really neat application that uses the latest technologies...while providing a real compelling user experience and in this case it's to map your family tree. The experience is so intuitive - the one feature I'd like...

Very interesting paper by Danyel Fisher on what users are looking at when using Virtual Earth - one interesting piece was the very bright spot on the shores of Lake Washington that points out Bill Gates house. How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online...

Version 1.1 of HD View Utilities Released Today we've posted a new version of the HD View Utilities . Thank you to everyone who has given us feedback in the past few weeks. Most of the changes are based on bugs and suggestions sent to us by users. Source...

Valerie Daggett and her team at UW have put up a site with their simulations of over 300 proteins for a combined simulation time of more than 35 microseconds. This site contains information for their top 30 targets. The other interesting part is that...

The MSR Sense toolkit was updated to v.2a1 and is available for download 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....

Very cool video of 3D Virtual Earth Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Announcing the 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/escience2007/ October 21-23 2007 The Friday Center for Continuing Education UNC-Chapel Hill 100 Friday Center Drive Chapel Hill NC 27599-1020 The use of computers...

Article on SecPAL from LinuxInsider... Microsoft Invites Collaboration With Grid Computing Research Microsoft's Security Policy Assertion Language, or SecPAL, is the company's attempt to develop a language for expressing decentralized authorization policies...

At Mix '07 this week there were some interesting relseases and demos - one spefically is Silverlight - that is cross-platform - with releases available on Windows and Mac OS. There is also a Silverlight Community site available with some examples - like...

Time to think about how Scientific data could utilized the Astoria service... The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the...