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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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Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini” , I was blown away by the technology and innovation created by SQL and Excel teams and that held up when I was able to test it out on my own.  It will be especially useful for scientists that Read More...
Posted 21 August 09 09:34 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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eScience Workshop 2009 – Call for Papers
The 2009 eScience Workshop will be held at the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA,  October 15-17, 2009.  The call for papers closes on July 31, 2009 . Call for Papers We invite contributions from Read More...
Posted 06 July 09 10:48 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com
The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance , included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from Read More...
Posted 02 March 09 08:49 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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GrayWulf (on SQL Server) wins SC’08 Storage Challenge
Congratulations to Alex Szalay and his amazing team at JHU for winning the SC’08 Storage Challenge – with the entry GrayWulf:Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing . GrayWulf – is implemented with SQL Server 2008 Abstract: Data intensive Read More...
Posted 25 November 08 10:52 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use.  The SQL Server Data Mining folks have a Data Mining Service in the cloud they are testing out…I posted previously [ OLAP and Scientific Data & Data Mining Addins Read More...
Posted 04 September 08 12:24 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download.  F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework and really should be looked at by scientists/researchers.  Also check out the F# Developer Center on MSDN for more info Read More...
Posted 30 August 08 10:07 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI – Registration Open
The registration site for this year’s Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI is now open and the call for papers deadline has been extended to September 15 th . The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI December 7-9, 2008, Indianapolis, IN, USA Important Read More...
Posted 19 August 08 09:38 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Sphere Project - A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
Today at the MSR Faculty Summit – I was able to play with the Sphere Project, and it’s a real unique way to interact with information/data.  It makes you think what data could be place in a system like this and how to interact with it.  We’ll Read More...
Posted 29 July 08 05:07 by Dan Fay | 2 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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Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) tutorials on Friday, July 18th
Microsoft Research is hosting the DOE 2008 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) tutorials on Friday, July 18 th .   If interested in attending, please register at the SciDAC Tutorials Registration . SciDAC Tutorial Agenda Read More...
Posted 11 July 08 04:08 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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SciDAC Tutorials - July 18 at Microsoft Research
On July 18th, Microsoft Research will be hosting the tutorials for the 2008 SciDAC Conference .  SciDAC - Scientific Discovery through Advanced  Computing is part of DOE's Office of Science research program to "support multidisciplinary Read More...
Posted 29 April 08 11:44 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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4th IEEE Intl. Conference on e-Science, 2008 and Microsoft eScience Workshop
This year the 5th Microsoft eScience workshop will be co-located with Intl. Conference on e-Science.  The workshop and conference will be Dec 7-12th in Indianapolis at IUPUI.  This will be another great workshop and conference. Links to previous Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 11:46 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island - Microsoft scientists unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’ response to changing environments . Also interesting is the use of the ScatterWeb .NET SDK from Read More...
Posted 03 April 08 04:35 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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