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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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Project Gemini – Videos available
I previously posted about using Project Gemini as a tool for scientific analysis – as a quick way to learn about them and see them in action, take a look at the one minute Gemini videos by Donald Farmer .  One of the latest videos is about using Read More...
Posted 26 August 09 07:35 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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University of Washington eScience Institute Rollout Event
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure to participate and present at the UW eScience Institute kickoff event. I really enjoyed the event and and the vision laid out by Ed Lazowska . The talks by David Baker, Martin Savage and Andy Connolly really highlighted Read More...
Posted 06 November 08 09:57 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Virtual Earth in full view
Now this is a way to view Virtual Earth – talk about an immersive experience.  I would like to see how WorldWide Telescope would look on this display… PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth Multi-channel Virtual Earth Description This Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 01:01 by Dan Fay | 1 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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Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
With all the activity in different science domains – I always keep an eye on the Science Cribsheets that SEED magazine puts out.   The latest, #16 is on Synthetic Biology…they’ve covered many topics from Stem Cells, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Read More...
Posted 15 September 08 11:54 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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