One thing a lot of people complain about web mapping applications is having to create tiles to be able to overlay images as new map layers. Tiling is boring, time consuming and pointless if all you have is a 100 KB image (not images of different details...

Lee did an excellent job in putting this together! It looks extremely interesting. You can download the entire issue (in PDF). Introduction Lee Dirks , Microsoft Corporation Tony Hey , Microsoft Corporation The Shape of the Scientific Article in The Developing...

It's great to see a high-performance .net library for writing MPI apps in C#.  It would be good to hear about implementations using MPI.net and how it works.  It would also be neat to see someone test out MPI.net with F# .  Can't wait to...

Here's a good opportunity to get the latest information on the next version of the Windows Compute Cluster - now named Windows HPC Server 2008. If you're wondering why Windows HPC Server 2008 is a hot topic - take a look at the performance increases they...

Sometimes you need doctors to give human consumable descriptions – and Bill Crounse’s post on Windows 7 – summed up my experiences with Windows 7 much more eloquent then I could :-) I especially love the DirectAccess feature – which let’s me have access...

If you ever wonder what how normal citizens can have an impact in science – take a listen to the latest Podcast from 365 Days of Astronomy and how a mild manner school teacher from the Netherlands found a strange object while participating in Galaxy Zoo...

I’ve been seeing the Bing Trucks around town – take a look if you haven’t seen them Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Michael Kordahi created a way to see how Bing search results compare to the other big search players - it gives you 3 columns of results and you can vote which one has the best results.  If you’re using IE you can also add BlindSearch as a IE search...

For those interested in adding chemical symbols to documents – checkout the Chem4Word project , you can install the Chem4Word add-in which utilizes the Chemical Markup Language and makes it easier for students, chemists and researchers to insert and modify...

If you’d like to see instant results while you’re typing in your search query try out “ The Real Live Search ” from Long Zheng from istartedsomething – it uses the fast Bing AJAX APIs and the JSON results to give you information as you type.  It...

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...

One of the most hidden features in Word 2007 is the equation editor – it allows you to input equations using the linear format and the equations that are generated are truly visualizing appealing.  There are some videos showing the use of equation...

Project Trident CTP is now available for download .  Project Trident is a scientific workflow workbench MSR External Research has been working on for the past few years, which allows scientists to analyze large, diverse datasets.  It’s built...

Last week the Worldwide Telescope team put out some tools to support astronomy and earth-system science with a strong emphasis on time-series support and 3-D rendering.  This includes the beta release of new tools and SDK for WWT.  They include...

Just saw this post that the NY Times Reader for the Mac is available - I'm interested in seeing how the Silverlight version works.  I've been using the WPF version for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and really like the ease of reading articles. ...

Just received the Sectoral Applications Research Program announcement from Nancy Beller-Simms at the NOAA Climate Program Office.  The due date for the proposal is 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time October 9, 2008. The overall NOAA 2009 Climate Program Announcement...

Wish I was creative enough to create a Xbox LIVE Community Games and not only get fame - but fortune :-)   I'd be interested in seeing some Science or environment related games up there - might be a way to educate as well as have fun. Once the...

  .NetMap an Excel plugin and dll is now available (Binaries and Source) on CodePlex – This brings the ability to visualize different types of networks – ie. Social networks (facebook, etc) and even things like Protein interaction network (see image...

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

It's really good to see that the datamining work ( ProDA ) that Cyrus Shahabi of USC is getting more visibility - the use of wavelet compression is a really neat way to deal with large amounts of data and make it easy to see the trends...you can see why...

Jon Udell gets the details from Jonathan Fay (no relation) on how WWT works.  How the WorldWide Telescope works Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

One of the discussions that frequently happens at the eScience/Science 2.0 type meetings is how does academia incorporate the Web 2.0 technologies (Blogging, etc) into the tenure based reward system - these are technologies that change how quickly/accessible...

Just ran across he DeepEarth OpenSource community project on CodePlex - bringing SilverLight 2 Deep Zoom to Virtual Earth - it pans and zooms really smooth.  Test it out or check out the video Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn...

Video showing Stonehenge in Photosynth off the National Geographic Magazine site  - Stonehenge Photosynth: 3-D Exploration Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

An On the Issues Essay came out last week featuring Alyssa Goodman , Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University.  Highlights how WWT can be used to not only browse and view the Universe – but can be a powerful tool to allow Astronomers to get to...