March 2008 - Posts

Open Source at Microsoft
28 March 08 10:53 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The Open Source at Microsoft site is a really good location for information, resources, and links on open source activities.  I found the Spikesource tidbit very beneficial - Spikesource is proud to offer the first open source PHP applications tested Read More...

Filed under: Open Source

TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
28 March 08 10:00 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

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...

Filed under: eScience, Cool Software, Research, Video, Viz, WWT

Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
28 March 08 09:16 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling execution of computational fiance models for university courses - there is a good paper on the implementation.  It would be good to see if the same Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Research, SharePoint, WinHPC

PubMed Central Article Authoring Add-in
24 March 08 09:46 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Scientists should find this Word 2007 add-in very useful, especially when submitting to PubMed central. It also shows how this could be utilized with other systems need to capture Metadata at the time of authoring. This Technology Preview release of the Read More...