February 2009 - Posts

Microsoft Research TechFest 2009
Today is the first day of the MSR TechFest 2009 – a showcase of MSR technologies – you can see pictures from TechFest.  One of the demos I’m loosely tied to is Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector – which utilizes WorldWide Telescope projected Read More...
Posted 24 February 09 10:31 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Using Flickr for Astronomy – and viewing in WWT
The use of online services such as Flickr to help scientists is in its infancy and applications utilizing commodity based solutions will continue to pick up momentum.  I especially like the integration and the ease of use – science should be about Read More...
Posted 20 February 09 02:55 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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eclipse4SL: Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight
Just saw a posting that eclipse4SL - the Eclipse tools for Silverlight project is available. It is an eclipse plug-in that enables Eclipse developers to use the Eclipse IDE to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight runtime platform. Read More...
Posted 09 February 09 12:47 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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New Tools Mobilize Local Data to Study Global Environmental Issues from Berkeley Lab
Here’s a really good article from the folks at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the collaboration MSR has ongoing between LBL and the Berkeley Water Center.  It highlights the use of databases for scientific information as Catharine mentions… Read More...
Posted 04 February 09 08:06 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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