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Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset
29 September 09 02:11 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Now that AWS is supporting SDSS, there is probably useful integration between the Worldwide Telescope and the SDSS datasets that can be leveraged, beyond what is currently supported - such as seeing the all the known galaxies in a 3D view – seeing the Read More...
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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...
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Microsoft Research TechFest 2009
24 February 09 10:31 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Today is the first day of the MSR TechFest 2009 – a showcase of MSR technologies – you can see pictures from TechFest.  One of the demos I’m loosely tied to is Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector – which utilizes WorldWide Telescope projected Read More...
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Using Flickr for Astronomy – and viewing in WWT
20 February 09 02:55 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The use of online services such as Flickr to help scientists is in its infancy and applications utilizing commodity based solutions will continue to pick up momentum.  I especially like the integration and the ease of use – science should be about Read More...
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...

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