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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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WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been working on with NASA for sometime.  We’re really excited about working with NASA to process many datasets like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Read More...
Posted 25 March 09 01:53 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Science Images in Photosynth
Here are a few really good synths of scientific images in Photosynth.  You can find others using Microscopes or Biology .  And there is even a Dissected Cat if you have a strong stomach. Obelia, polyps, golangia by ppberk Micrographs of powder Read More...
Posted 20 January 09 12:44 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Blogging in Real Ink – electronic notebook?
Earlier this year I stumbled upon Adapx’s Capturx™  for Microsoft® Office OneNote® – which is a digital pen that captures what you write and then you can upload to OneNote.  So you get all the benefits of Paper and Ink (quick boot time :-), Read More...
Posted 24 October 08 02:39 by Dan Fay | 0 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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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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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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TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
I realized I hadn't posted the link to the TED Talk on the WorldWide Telescope   Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong gi ve an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds Read More...
Posted 28 March 08 10:00 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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Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
Here's a link to a Russian based project - where they are mining environmental data archives.  It even has NASA WorldWind visualization plugins....there is also a web based test site .  Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal Read More...
Posted 22 January 08 07:36 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth
Just tested out the MapCrucher Beta for VE - it really runs great. As soon as I get a few more cycles...I'll post a couple of the maps I did... MapCruncher™ beta for Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ is a newly-released, innovative tool that allows anyone to Read More...
Posted 29 October 07 04:42 by Dan Fay | 0 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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Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In
Just ran across this Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In from MSR - great way to scrape data from a web page - you can easily bring the data into Excel without much effort and then save the excel spreadsheet and refresh the data when you need it. The Excel 2007 Read More...
Posted 12 September 07 10:21 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Code Camp 8 Registration: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
For you eScience folks in the Boston area - here's a real opportunity to hear/see how Silverlight can be utilized... Code Camp 8 Registration and Call for Speakers Open! We're live and ready (thanks, Chris Pels!) Attendee registration and the Call for Read More...
Posted 17 August 07 11:15 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Virtual Earth / Live Maps: beautiful 3D images of Niagara Falls
Check out the beautiful VE imagery of Niagara Falls , I ran across it on the VE blog...especially check out the interactive 3D version...you can even image using this to go "over the falls in barrel". To appreciate this beautiful image of Niagara Falls Read More...
Posted 20 July 07 01:04 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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