October 2008 - Posts

Virtual Earth in full view
28 October 08 01:01 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

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...

Filed under: eScience, Video, Viz, Environment, Virtual Earth

.NetMap @ Harvard
27 October 08 10:59 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Marc Smith gave a (Excel) .NetMap online tutorial at Harvard this morning hosted by David Lazar of the Harvard Kennedy School - Program on Networked Governance .  The slides and recording will be available at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov Online Read More...

Filed under: Tutorial, .NetMap

PDC watch remotely – Great News
25 October 08 10:00 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

This is really good to hear…being able to watch some of the PDC sessions remotely.  I’m looking forward to tuning in. PDC @ Home With the current global crisis some of us will not be able to attend PDC this year due to different reasons however the Read More...

Filed under: Conference

DataDepot – Blogging, Visualize, and Engage with your Data
24 October 08 03:36 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Looking for a way to interact around data – take a look at the MSR DataDepot , a place to communicate around datasets – essentially bringing together the idea of blogging/wikis and scientific data.  I especially like the idea of mixing and matching Read More...

Blogging in Real Ink – electronic notebook?
24 October 08 02:39 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

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...

Asus Windows CE PND sports heads-up display
12 October 08 11:39 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

I can’t wait to see one of these in action in person…I’m willing to beta test :-) Asus announced a "revolutionary" Windows CE PND (personal navigation device)  that projects directions, speed, and other information onto a car windshield. Read More...

HPC - MPI.NET 1.0 Is Now Released...!
08 October 08 11:12 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

PhilPen has posted that the folks at Indiana University have released MPI.NET: High Performance C# library for Message Passing .  The runtime and source code are available for download as well as a Tutorial .  This should make it much easier Read More...

Filed under: Software, WinHPC, Parallel Computing, Article

Touchless
07 October 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Touchless is a fun and very cool release available from Office Labs – all you need is a webcam and some objects to use as pointers/markers… check it out. Touchless Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Read More...

Filed under: Software, Cool Software, Viz, Beta