December 2008 - Posts

Photosynth in Silverlight
16 December 08 07:10 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Very neat to see a experimental Silverlight viewer for Photosynth . Here’s one synth I did while at SC08 of the MS Booth Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Silverlight

eScience Conference in Pictures
10 December 08 09:41 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Here’s some pictures from the Microsoft eScience Workshop.  AutoCollage makes it easy to do :-) Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

Document Interop – OpenXML to HTML
10 December 08 06:15 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

It’s good to see how the vision of the OpenXML document formats is being more fully realized, especially with the availability of tools from the Document Interoperability Initiative .  The latest ones being the Open XML Document Viewer that allows Read More...

Carole Goble receives 1st Jim Gray eScience award
09 December 08 08:50 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

eScience Unconference
09 December 08 08:33 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Just finished up the Unconference event – bridging the Microsoft eScience Workshop and the IEEE e-Science Conference .  It was great fun  :-) We ended up with Demos and discussions…and I really appreciate all the folks that participated.  Read More...

Filed under: Conference, Science

InfoMesa Project – Whiteboard for your data
09 December 08 06:57 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

One of neatest apps I’ve see lately is InfoMesa – a project by Sam Batterman – the example is InfoMesa allows any kind of data or visualization to be added to the Whiteboard.  The folks at RENCI are using it in their Social Computing Room (SCR) w/ Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Viz, Science

Interesting Papers from MSR – Nov 2008
02 December 08 10:31 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Papers from the November 2008 drop Microsoft Research I found quite interesting. Txt-it Notes: Paper Based Text Messaging Stuart Taylor - November 2008 Text messaging or SMS (Short Message Service) has be-come a ubiquitous form of communication, particularly Read More...

Filed under: Research, Paper

eScience 2008 Unconference Signup
01 December 08 03:47 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The signup for the Unconference session at the 2008 eScience Conference is available.  Unconferences are participant driven events – so attendees get to decide what, who, gets to present.  This Unconference bridges the 2008 Microsoft eScience Read More...

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