March 2009 - Posts

WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
25 March 09 01:53 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been working on with NASA for sometime.  We’re really excited about working with NASA to process many datasets like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Cool Software, Viz, Silverlight, Science, Education, WWT

MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
11 March 09 10:50 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, Read More...

Filed under: Software, eScience, Word, Collaboration, Science, Open Source

WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com
02 March 09 08:49 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance , included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Research, Viz, Science, WWT