November 2006 - Posts

Open Specification Promise: What. How. Why.
21 November 06 01:46 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

This is great for those building protocol-based integration solutions. Recently, Microsoft announced a new type of licensing model aimed at making it much easier, therefore safer from a legal point of view, for developers to implement specs without having Read More...

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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Available for Download
17 November 06 12:31 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is available for download - to understand how WSS and MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) are related check out this link - http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/overview.mspx Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Cool Software, SharePoint

HPC Leaders Demonstrate Interoperability Using OGF Specs
15 November 06 01:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Saw this demo while at SC06 today - this is great news for folks looking to use HPC clusters. The Open Grid Forum (OGF) announced its interoperability demonstration at the Supercomputing 2006 (SC06) conference showing the work being done towards interoperable Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Cool Software, InterOp, Research, Grid, WinHPC

Behind the scene w/ Murray Sargent: Math in Office : LineServices
14 November 06 10:03 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

I love hearing the behind the scene action - as Paul Harvey used to say - And now, the rest of the story... from Murray Sargent's Blog.... One of the key technologies behind the high quality display of mathematical text in Word 2007 and RichEdit 6.0 is Read More...

Filed under: Software, Cool Software, Research

SharePoint: Cross-browser authoring
14 November 06 09:48 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

How timely this post is...at SC06 I was just having a discussion with someone (who would like to remain nameless) about this very topic...John, that's 1 down :-) Cross-browser authoring One of the most popular blog entries was the web browser compatibility Read More...

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Sim Water at UC Berkeley using OLAP cubes
14 November 06 03:54 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

I really like to see this collaboration between the researchers at UC Berkeley and Catharine van Ingen from MSR's eScience group - they are using data mining and cubes to help with the scientific research. This is really neat stuff... SIM WATER Environmental Read More...

Filed under: Software, eScience, Cool Software, Research, SQL Server

MSR Synthetic-Biology Request for Proposals
08 November 06 09:31 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Here is the next RFP from MSR - this one is on Synthetic-Biology and is open worldwide. See the RFP for more details: Synthetic-Biology Request for Proposals Microsoft Research launched a $500,000 request for proposals in synthetic biology Nov. 4. Synthetic Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Research

Data Mining for the rest of us...
07 November 06 11:58 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

If you've ever been interested in using datamining tools - but don't have the time to figure out how it all works...take a look at these add-ins for the Excel2007. With the data in a spreadsheet - you can kick off an analysis. I can see this a great way Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Cool Software, Research, SQL Server

3D maps w/ Local.live.com - very cool
07 November 06 12:52 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

I just ran across the 3D support they've added to the maps on local.live and it is amazing...especially w/ cities like Seattle & Boston... About 3D maps View 3D perspectives of land and cities using the mouse, keyboard, or an Xbox 360 Controller for Read More...

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Novell and MS - OpenXML in OpenOffice
04 November 06 07:26 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

This is great to hear - this will allow folks not using Office to have access to scientific info/data that could be include in documents... Office Open XML http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/open_letter.mspx Novell engineers have been working Read More...

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industryStream - For Health and Life Sciences
03 November 06 08:55 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Thought some folks in the Health and Life Sciences field might find these talks interesting. The Microsoft Developer & Platform Developer Evangelism Team is proud to announce industryStream , the premier technical program for developers. industryStream Read More...

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