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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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TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
24 August 09 01:29 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient ( Silverlight ) on their list of 50 Best Websites for 2009.  That puts WWT in with sites like Flickr, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Amazon, and even PhotoSynth – not bad for the very small team we have Read More...
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“Cophenhagen” – a user experience concept video
17 April 09 10:46 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just saw some of these great UI concept ideas by Cullen Dudas’ on istartedsomething and it’s a fun watch. Also – some some footage that shows off some of the previous Windows launches. Copenhagen User Experience from Copenhagen Concept on Vimeo . Cross Read More...
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Wow - DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom
15 April 09 10:46 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just tried out the DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – it’s pretty amazing – brings together Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom. I tested it out with some Astronomy photos… dfd Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...
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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...
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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The Earth, Stars, and Planets in 3D
27 January 09 11:20 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
One of the coolest new features of the WWT Solstice Borealis Beta (released at the beginning of Jan) is the ability to see the Earth, Stars, and Planets in a stereoscopic 3D effect .  I’ve been using the Anaglyph mode (View |  {arrow} | Stereo Read More...
Science Images in Photosynth
20 January 09 12:44 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Here are a few really good synths of scientific images in Photosynth.  You can find others using Microscopes or Biology .  And there is even a Dissected Cat if you have a strong stomach. Obelia, polyps, golangia by ppberk Micrographs of powder Read More...
NodeXL for viewing and analyzing network graphs is available again (formally .NetMap)
15 January 09 09:00 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
NodeXL – the app formally know as .NetMap is available again on CodePlex.  NodeXL is a Excel template and addin for viewing and analyzing network graphs.  There are a whole slew of updates and bug fixes.  Check it out…. Cross Posted from Read More...
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InfoMesa Project – Whiteboard for your data
09 December 08 06:57 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
One of neatest apps I’ve see lately is InfoMesa – a project by Sam Batterman – the example is InfoMesa allows any kind of data or visualization to be added to the Whiteboard.  The folks at RENCI are using it in their Social Computing Room (SCR) w/ Read More...
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Virtual Earth in full view
28 October 08 01:01 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Now this is a way to view Virtual Earth – talk about an immersive experience.  I would like to see how WorldWide Telescope would look on this display… PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth Multi-channel Virtual Earth Description This Read More...
Touchless
07 October 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Touchless is a fun and very cool release available from Office Labs – all you need is a webcam and some objects to use as pointers/markers… check it out. Touchless Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Read More...
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New drop of .NetMap available
28 August 08 07:58 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
There’s a new release (1.0.1.52) of .NetMap available – which includes both the Excel Template and the class libraries.  The big feature in this drop is the ability to do Directed or Undirected graphs.  This determines whether arrows are drawn Read More...
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[Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend; There is Life beyond Files
08 April 08 11:00 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
In a discussion I had today around ways to advance a scientific problem I was reminded of Jim Gray and Gerd Heber's trilogy - Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend .  The three papers are really a good resource for Read More...
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