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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 | 0 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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F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
30 August 08 10:07 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download.  F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework and really should be looked at by scientists/researchers.  Also check out the F# Developer Center on MSDN for more info Read More...
The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI – Registration Open
19 August 08 09:38 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The registration site for this year’s Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI is now open and the call for papers deadline has been extended to September 15 th . The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI December 7-9, 2008, Indianapolis, IN, USA Important Read More...
"How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
24 July 08 09:57 AM | eScience | 0 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...
Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis
23 July 08 03:14 PM | eScience | 0 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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NOAA – 2009 Climate Program Announcement
18 July 08 08:47 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just received the Sectoral Applications Research Program announcement from Nancy Beller-Simms at the NOAA Climate Program Office.  The due date for the proposal is 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time October 9, 2008. The overall NOAA 2009 Climate Program Announcement Read More...
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) tutorials on Friday, July 18th
11 July 08 04:08 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Microsoft Research is hosting the DOE 2008 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) tutorials on Friday, July 18 th .   If interested in attending, please register at the SciDAC Tutorials Registration . SciDAC Tutorial Agenda Read More...
NGO - Nonprofit Connection
10 July 08 12:48 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just ran across the NGO Connection site – this is the place for non-profit orgs in the scientific space to look into…. NGO Connection is an online resource for non-profit groups around the world that provides resources to help advance the causes of the Read More...
Environmental Science related activities
02 July 08 05:09 PM | eScience | 0 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...
4th IEEE Intl. Conference on e-Science, 2008 and Microsoft eScience Workshop
24 April 08 11:46 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
This year the 5th Microsoft eScience workshop will be co-located with Intl. Conference on e-Science.  The workshop and conference will be Dec 7-12th in Indianapolis at IUPUI.  This will be another great workshop and conference. Links to previous 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...
2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium
01 April 08 03:16 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Currently heading back from the 2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium setup by GaTech and Emery University - I really enjoying going to this yearly symposium (my 3rd year) and am honored to be able to speak.  The symposium brings together Read More...
[Paper] Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data
08 February 08 12:28 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
A MSR Tech Report is now available on Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data - Here's the non-technical summary of the paper: At the core of the human adaptive immune response is the train-to-kill mechanism in which specialized immune cells 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...
January update to Science @ Microsoft
19 January 08 12:02 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
The January update to the Technical Computing @ Microsoft site ( www.microsoft.com/science ) is up: Spotlighting the SwissEx Collaboration with EPFL. A feature entitled “Determining Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure with Comparative Sequence Read More...
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