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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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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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What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope?
In case you didn't see the blog entry on ZDNet about WWT What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope? , I can tell you the work that Curtis and Jonathan have done is amazing...stay tuned. Robert Scoble posted about a Microsoft product that Read More...
Posted 15 February 08 03:45 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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[Paper] Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data
A MSR Tech Report is now available on Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data - Here's the non-technical summary of the paper: At the core of the human adaptive immune response is the train-to-kill mechanism in which specialized immune cells Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 12:28 by Dan Fay | 2 Comments   
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TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider
Ran across this post on Charlie Calvert's Community Blog using TerraServer's Web Services with LINQ...why is this interesting to me - many moons ago (before .NET was officially launched) I approached Tom Barclay who was running TerraServer and convinced Read More...
Posted 28 January 08 09:15 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Silverlight-based cycle stealing
Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how well it would work. It's good to see this article on CodeProject about Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight by Daniel Vaughan . Read More...
Posted 28 January 08 12:12 by Dan Fay | 2 Comments   
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PopFly open to Public Beta
It's great to see that PopFly is now open to a larger audience via it's public beta. I especially like the PopFly mashup Deb Agarwal (Berkeley Water Center) did with the AmeriFlux datasets they are working with - a good example of how you can visualize Read More...
Posted 18 October 07 04:12 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
Thanks to Alex Szalay (JHU) for pointing me to GalaxyZoo - now you can help classify galaxies. This really neat... Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 09:11 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Matlab to OneNote
Ran across this OneNote PowerToy on Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog that allows you to output Matlab to OneNote - really cool - allows you to capture your process in one place. Matlab to OneNote - Thanks to Stephen Lawrence I just got an email from Stephen Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 08:40 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft Research Releases Tools to Help Science Progress Toward an AIDS Vaccine
You know there are times when superlatives don't do justice - I'll just leave it at this - David and Carl are doing great things - take a look at the app and the code...and the cool part is that the PhyloD code will run on the DigiePede Network ..... Read More...
Posted 14 June 07 01:17 by Dan Fay | 4 Comments   
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Summer Faculty Workshops in 'Modern Software Development with Microsoft .NET"
Here's a great opportunity for profs and scientists to learn about .NET development - I first met Joe Hummel many moons ago at SIGCSE where he was teaching a VB tutorial and how it could be used for teaching, talk about bucking the trend. I'm glad to Read More...
Posted 23 May 07 03:03 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Virtual Labs - giving away a Camera
Just saw that the Virtual Labs folks are giving away a camera for using the labs... I'd recommend the Business Intelligence: Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis Services Creating a Distributed Application with C# Introducing Content Types for Microsoft Read More...
Posted 16 May 07 02:31 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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