eScience @ Microsoft
Since I’m continually running the latest betas or versions of software and add-ins – every once in a...
Date: 04/21/2014
TED2014 30 year Celebration and Anniversary Vancouver, BC March 17th – 21st Last week the Microsoft...
Date: 03/28/2014
Today we’ve made online versions of the Windows for Azure training for researchers available to...
Date: 03/28/2014
Coming in March – there is going to be a special Azure for Research Request for Proposals – focusing...
Date: 02/07/2014
Just saw the announcement of the e-book “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” – a good...
Date: 02/04/2014
Great news for folks looking for guidance on developing apps for the Azure Cloud – take a look at...
Date: 01/28/2014
Great to see this new book out on using the technical and scientific features in Word to write...
Date: 12/04/2013
This is a cross-post of a first blog entry from Rob's new earth science blog...
Date: 12/02/2013
Tuesday 12/10 Speaker Affiliation Description 10:00am-10:30am Wenming Ye Microsoft Cloud Computing...
Date: 11/29/2013
Safe Step: A Real-time GPS Tracking and Analysis System for Criminal Activities using Ankle Bracelets
With overburdened and still-growing prisons, the move towards home incarceration is becoming...
Date: 10/07/2013
Interested in getting up and running quickly with data science computing using Python and IPython...
Date: 04/29/2013
Narwhal is a geoscience-focused Developer Toolkit that simplifies getting data into WWT. I wrote the...
Date: 03/23/2013
This past weekend at SXSW, Microsoft and the WorldWide Telescope team worked with NASA, Northrop...
Date: 03/13/2013
Today starts South by Southwest Interactive and the Worldwide Telescope team is working with NASA...
Date: 03/08/2013
During this years annual Microsoft Research TechFest, where Microsoft Research exposes compelling...
Date: 03/07/2013
After posting about Data Explorer yesterday – I thought about other add-ins for Excel that make hard...
Date: 02/28/2013
Functionality and features for Excel 2013 just keeps getting better, especially when you realize...
Date: 02/28/2013
This is a good article if you’ve updated to Excel 2013 and want to update your PowerPivot models....
Date: 02/04/2013
It’s great to see the University of Washington planetarium showcased in this UW Today...
Date: 01/30/2013
This week many of us from the Microsoft Research Earth, Energy and Science team are down at AGU2012...
Date: 12/04/2012
Last week at SuperCompter2012, the Windows Azure team showed off it’s Big Compute support by placing...
Date: 11/21/2012
Even if you weren’t able to get a registration for //Build/ 2012 – the streaming sessions are...
Date: 10/31/2012
If you’re interested in how carbon impacts the overall climate models – you’ll really be interested...
Date: 10/05/2012
It’s really good to see Microsoft’s commitment to reducing the companies carbon footprint being...
Date: 09/17/2012
Last week I ended up finding that one of my directories of pictures lost their file extensions – so...
Date: 09/17/2012
I just finished a seminar presentation to Monash University while sitting in Redmond – the slides...
Date: 09/06/2012
I just saw that some new Curriculum materials for Windows Azure and SQL Databases in the Faculty...
Date: 08/24/2012
SQL Server 2012 FILETABLE for managing data in scientific, heterogeneous, idiosyncratic computing environments
The FILETABLE feature, available in SQL Server 2012, solves a problem that has bedeviled our...
Date: 08/09/2012
It’s inspiring to see someone take technology and combine with art and artistic abilities to make...
Date: 06/12/2012
For some Friday fun, I was playing with Cliplets from Microsoft Research – it let’s you combine...
Date: 06/08/2012
This is great to hear that Microsoft along with Technology Leaders Support OASIS Standards for Open...
Date: 05/24/2012
Just saw the announcement from the HDF5 group that they’ve released PSH5X-a Windows PowerShell...
Date: 05/17/2012
I've created the first in a sequence of Layerscape tutorials as a Power Point deck. This is -- of...
Date: 04/02/2012
There’s a good cover story article on Microsoft’s Smart Building Pilot Program in the latest The...
Date: 01/16/2012
Don’t miss the Learn Windows Azure event next Tuesday, Dec 13th…. Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday...
Date: 12/09/2011
Dealing with scientific data can be challenging – especially since it’s in many different formats,...
Date: 12/08/2011
For the last couple of days at Supercomputer 2011 we’ve been demoing WorldWide Telescope being...
Date: 11/16/2011
There is a new release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio and it includes Pyvot: a connector to...
Date: 11/05/2011
Earlier today I had the pleasure to give the kickoff talk for the release of The Fourth Paradigm...
Date: 11/03/2011
Just read the The World According to LINQ article in October’s Communications of the ACM – Erik...
Date: 10/26/2011
Microsoft Research is putting .NET Bio, a bioinformatics toolkit into the Outercurve Foundation,...
Date: 10/18/2011
I just realized that Docs.com has support for PDFs – so to test it out, I put up a copy of The...
Date: 09/29/2011
Today summer seemed to come to an end – the “marine layer” moved in from the coast and brought cool...
Date: 09/13/2011
Last week the Worldwide Telescope team put out some tools to support astronomy and earth-system...
Date: 05/17/2011
If you are a professional or student interested in visualizing astronomy data then you should not...
Date: 05/06/2011
For those of you interested in Geospatial issues – check out the new strawman proposal for adding...
Date: 05/04/2011
Just saw that the Business Intelligence folks have setup BI Labs – It will be interesting to see all...
Date: 04/29/2011
Today’s Bing Image of the day is the Cats Eye Nebula – if you want to explore it more you can see it...
Date: 05/15/2010
Today is the 2nd anniversary of the launch of WWT – congrats to Jonathan, Curtis, and the rest of...
Date: 05/12/2010