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SciScope app and code available for download
Earlier today the code behind the SciScope site was made available at SciScope.CodePlex.com.  This enables others to make their datasets/repositories available and allow others to discover, download and utilize their data in a simple to use website.     Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 04:47 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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SharePoint Designer Available for Free
Since I utilize SharePoint Designer allot for editing internal SharePoint sites…this is a really good thing to see.  Customize SharePoint with SharePoint Designer We are implementing a number of changes to promote and facilitate even more customization Read More...
Posted 02 April 09 05:29 by Dan Fay | 2 Comments   
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MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, Read More...
Posted 11 March 09 10:50 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit Release -Microsoft Research
With this ADK , users can convert their own astronomical images/data to the format that can be read by WWT and share with other WWT users.  Can’t wait to see more images/datasets made available. WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit, January Read More...
Posted 21 January 09 02:21 by Dan Fay | 2 Comments   
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So you don’t think you can Sing?
Now you can have your own musical accompaniment to match your voice without having to worry about artistic differences.  I’ll have to play with Songsmith and see if can help even my voice sound decent :-)  But you won’t see me posting the songs Read More...
Posted 08 January 09 10:43 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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WALL•E's Universe in WorldWide Telescope
Now this is fun science - Microsoft Research and Disney•Pixar team up to offer guided tours of the universe with WorldWide Telescope – how better to get our children interested in science and the universe – for most of us it was the Apollo Missions that Read More...
Posted 18 November 08 08:24 by Dan Fay | 3 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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Touchless
Touchless is a fun and very cool release available from Office Labs – all you need is a webcam and some objects to use as pointers/markers… check it out. Touchless Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Read More...
Posted 07 October 08 04:35 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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New drop of .NetMap available
There’s a new release (1.0.1.52) of .NetMap available – which includes both the Excel Template and the class libraries.  The big feature in this drop is the ability to do Directed or Undirected graphs.  This determines whether arrows are drawn Read More...
Posted 28 August 08 07:58 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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pptPlex from OfficeLabs – making PowerPoint fun again
I’ve been using the internal drop of pptPlex from OfficeLabs for awhile and really enjoy using the zoomable canvas.  glad to see they’ve made it available to a wider audience.  I especially like being able to combine different presentations Read More...
Posted 15 August 08 05:19 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Live Mesh Video
I really like the functionality provided by Live Mesh…and the video below helps gets the vision across.  Beyond file syncing – I just tested out distributing a .NET 3rd party app using Live Mesh and the app runs flawlessly.  So I could install Read More...
Posted 13 August 08 12:37 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Released
PHP developers can now integrate data from SQL Server now that the driver is available for download .  Also glad to see that it works with SQL Server Express edition. It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Read More...
Posted 29 July 08 01:42 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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