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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
16 October 09 10:39 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery .  The book focuses on the change of all sciences moving from observational, to theoretical, to computational and now to the Read More...

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New Tools Mobilize Local Data to Study Global Environmental Issues from Berkeley Lab
04 February 09 08:06 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Here’s a really good article from the folks at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the collaboration MSR has ongoing between LBL and the Berkeley Water Center.  It highlights the use of databases for scientific information as Catharine mentions… Read More...

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Science News to justify half a bar of chocolate per week - lowers risk of heart disease
23 September 08 09:45 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

I only wish the study coming out of the Moli-sani Project being run by Research Laboratories of the Catholic University in Campobasso recommended milk chocolate instead dark chocolate.  Sorry Snickers - Half A Bar Of Chocolate Per Week, But Just Read More...

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"How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
24 July 08 09:57 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

One of the discussions that frequently happens at the eScience/Science 2.0 type meetings is how does academia incorporate the Web 2.0 technologies (Blogging, etc) into the tenure based reward system - these are technologies that change how quickly/accessible Read More...

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Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis
23 July 08 03:14 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

It's really good to see that the datamining work ( ProDA ) that Cyrus Shahabi of USC is getting more visibility - the use of wavelet compression is a really neat way to deal with large amounts of data and make it easy to see the trends...you can see why Read More...

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Environmental Science related activities
02 July 08 05:09 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Here are some good articles on Environmental Science related activities that our researchers at Microsoft Research are involved with.  Understanding Climate Change—One Tree at a Time How Can Technology Sustain the Environment in the 21st Century? Read More...

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