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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery .  The book focuses on the change of all sciences moving from observational, to theoretical, to computational and now to the Read More...
Posted 16 October 09 10:39 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient ( Silverlight ) on their list of 50 Best Websites for 2009.  That puts WWT in with sites like Flickr, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Amazon, and even PhotoSynth – not bad for the very small team we have Read More...
Posted 24 August 09 01:29 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Adding quarters to the innovation machine
I really enjoyed Dan Reed’s latest posting - HPC: Making a Small Fortune - and the need for real innovation in this space, especially with the rise of new technologies – that’s part of the reason we looked at at combining HPC and Databases via the GrayWulf Read More...
Posted 09 June 09 11:12 by Dan Fay | 0 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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HPC - MPI.NET 1.0 Is Now Released...!
PhilPen has posted that the folks at Indiana University have released MPI.NET: High Performance C# library for Message Passing .  The runtime and source code are available for download as well as a Tutorial .  This should make it much easier Read More...
Posted 08 October 08 11:12 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Science News to justify half a bar of chocolate per week - lowers risk of heart disease
I only wish the study coming out of the Moli-sani Project being run by Research Laboratories of the Catholic University in Campobasso recommended milk chocolate instead dark chocolate.  Sorry Snickers - Half A Bar Of Chocolate Per Week, But Just Read More...
Posted 23 September 08 09:45 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
With all the activity in different science domains – I always keep an eye on the Science Cribsheets that SEED magazine puts out.   The latest, #16 is on Synthetic Biology…they’ve covered many topics from Stem Cells, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Read More...
Posted 15 September 08 11:54 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Accessible Research blog
Sam Stokes has spun up a blog to make research more accessible to students and though's of us that are learners for life.  His latest post is looking at a project Sensor touch: Fun in reaching out using Xbox controllers…sounds like fun – would also Read More...
Posted 27 August 08 03:42 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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"How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 08 09:57 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis
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 Read More...
Posted 23 July 08 03:14 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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SCIENCE Article: An Earth Systems Science Agency?
Very interesting article in current issue of Science... The United States faces unprecedented environmental and economic challenges in the decades ahead. Foremost among them will be climate change, sea-level rise, altered weather patterns, declines in Read More...
Posted 10 July 08 01:41 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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The Petabyte Problem: Scrubbing, Curating and Publishing Big Data
Carol Minton Morris has a good entry on the HatCheck Newsletter on Alex Szalay's keynote, “Scientific Publishing in the Era of Pedabyte Data,” at JCDL on June 19, 2008.  I always enjoy listening to Alex and hearing his perspective, especially Read More...
Posted 03 July 08 02:38 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Environmental Science related activities
Here are some good articles on Environmental Science related activities that our researchers at Microsoft Research are involved with.  Understanding Climate Change—One Tree at a Time How Can Technology Sustain the Environment in the 21st Century? Read More...
Posted 02 July 08 05:09 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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WorldWide Telescope is a powerful educational tool — a way of telling compelling stories about the Universe.
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 Read More...
Posted 30 June 08 01:04 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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