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OLAP and Scientific Data
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I thought it might be a good time to pull together some relevant papers and links. I believe OLAP is ideal to help analyze large quantities of data including Read More...
Posted 20 August 08 03:57 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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"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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NOAA – 2009 Climate Program Announcement
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 Read More...
Posted 18 July 08 08:47 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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NGO - Nonprofit Connection
Just ran across the NGO Connection site – this is the place for non-profit orgs in the scientific space to look into…. NGO Connection is an online resource for non-profit groups around the world that provides resources to help advance the causes of the Read More...
Posted 10 July 08 12:48 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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Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is available on Microsoft Connect and Ryan Waite goes into detail on much of the new stuff.  I'm really excited to start seeing scientists utilize and evaluate the new version - I think many of the new pieces especially Read More...
Posted 23 May 08 08:32 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky
The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky article by Ian Harvey (CBC news) on WWT - not only captures the excitement around using WWT - highlighting the tour created by 6-year old Benjamin (which gets to me every time I hear it).  The Read More...
Posted 09 May 08 12:35 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1
Savas has been coding again :-) - he's updated the FLUXNET Data set visualization to Silverlight  v2.  Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1 It's been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight Read More...
Posted 28 April 08 11:25 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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2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium
Currently heading back from the 2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium setup by GaTech and Emery University - I really enjoying going to this yearly symposium (my 3rd year) and am honored to be able to speak.  The symposium brings together Read More...
Posted 01 April 08 03:16 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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PubMed Central Article Authoring Add-in
Scientists should find this Word 2007 add-in very useful, especially when submitting to PubMed central.  It also shows how this could be utilized with other systems need to capture Metadata at the time of authoring. This Technology Preview release Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 09:46 by Dan Fay | 2 Comments   
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