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Very Cool: make Xbox games, make money
22 July 08 11:29 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Wish I was creative enough to create a Xbox LIVE Community Games and not only get fame - but fortune :-)   I'd be interested in seeing some Science or environment related games up there - might be a way to educate as well as have fun. Once the Read More...
National Geographic and Stonehenge in Photosynth
19 June 08 10:35 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Video showing Stonehenge in Photosynth off the National Geographic Magazine site  - Stonehenge Photosynth: 3-D Exploration Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...
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DeepEarth - VE and Silverlight Deep Zoom
18 June 08 02:09 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just ran across he DeepEarth OpenSource community project on CodePlex - bringing SilverLight 2 Deep Zoom to Virtual Earth - it pans and zooms really smooth.  Test it out or check out the video Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay Read More...
HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
18 June 08 11:01 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The Top500 list was released and the cluster at NCSA came in at 23rd running a beta of Windows HPC 2008 .  What’s really interesting is the 77% efficiency and that it only took 4 hours to install the 1200 node cluster. Press Article - Windows HPC Read More...
NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac OS Now Available
27 May 08 10:33 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just saw this post that the NY Times Reader for the Mac is available - I'm interested in seeing how the Silverlight version works.  I've been using the WPF version for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and really like the ease of reading articles.  Read More...
PHP Support in Expression Web 2
22 May 08 08:27 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Passing this note about PHP support in Expression Web 2.... PHP Support in Expression Web 2 For those who might wonder about how open Microsoft is to third-party development tools and/or languages, here's one answer : In response to feedback from Expression Read More...
Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha
02 May 08 11:49 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just played the " Kill the Peas " game on the new Popfly Game Creator and it was pretty fun...what type of science game could be created... Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha Today we’re adding something special to Popfly : an early Read More...
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Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight
18 April 08 09:01 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I was pointed to this on CodePlex - interesting to think how it could be used to enable Science Apps to display their data in 3D.  Check out the samples at http://www.markdawson.org/Kit3D Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight - Home Read More...
Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
03 April 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island - Microsoft scientists unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’ response to changing environments . Also interesting is the use of the ScatterWeb .NET SDK from Read More...
Bird's Eye in 3D - Photosynth like
03 April 08 11:29 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I use maps.live.com allot especially when I'm traveling - but didn't realize about this feature until I was reading the Live Labs Announcements.  I just tried it out and really like it...very much like Photosynth ... Bird's Eye in 3D Both the 3D Read More...
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TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
28 March 08 10:00 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I realized I hadn't posted the link to the TED Talk on the WorldWide Telescope   Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong gi ve an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds Read More...
Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
28 March 08 09:16 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling execution of computational fiance models for university courses - there is a good paper on the implementation.  It would be good to see if the same Read More...
Silverlight-based cycle stealing
28 January 08 12:12 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how well it would work. It's good to see this article on CodeProject about Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight by Daniel Vaughan . Read More...
Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
22 January 08 07:36 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Here's a link to a Russian based project - where they are mining environmental data archives.  It even has NASA WorldWind visualization plugins....there is also a web based test site .  Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal Read More...
MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing
17 January 08 05:11 PM | eScience | 2 Comments   
It's great to see a high-performance .net library for writing MPI apps in C#.  It would be good to hear about implementations using MPI.net and how it works.  It would also be neat to see someone test out MPI.net with F# .  Can't wait to Read More...
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