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OLAP and Scientific Data
20 August 08 03:57 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I thought it might be a good time to pull together some relevant papers and links. I believe OLAP is ideal to help analyze large quantities of data including Read More...
Windows HPC and Pixar animation software RenderMan
19 August 08 11:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
It’s great to see that Pixar will be releasing RenderMan on the upcoming release of Windows HPC 2008.  The rendering software behind such hit animated movies as The Incredibles , Ratatouille and Monsters Inc. should become even more powerful when Read More...
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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...
pptPlex from OfficeLabs – making PowerPoint fun again
15 August 08 05:19 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I’ve been using the internal drop of pptPlex from OfficeLabs for awhile and really enjoy using the zoomable canvas.  glad to see they’ve made it available to a wider audience.  I especially like being able to combine different presentations Read More...
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Live Mesh Video
13 August 08 12:37 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I really like the functionality provided by Live Mesh…and the video below helps gets the vision across.  Beyond file syncing – I just tested out distributing a .NET 3rd party app using Live Mesh and the app runs flawlessly.  So I could install Read More...
Sphere Project - A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
29 July 08 05:07 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Today at the MSR Faculty Summit – I was able to play with the Sphere Project, and it’s a real unique way to interact with information/data.  It makes you think what data could be place in a system like this and how to interact with it.  We’ll Read More...
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Released
29 July 08 01:42 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
PHP developers can now integrate data from SQL Server now that the driver is available for download .  Also glad to see that it works with SQL Server Express edition. It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Read More...
Overlaying images on Virtual Earth without tiling
28 July 08 10:02 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
One thing a lot of people complain about web mapping applications is having to create tiles to be able to overlay images as new map layers. Tiling is boring, time consuming and pointless if all you have is a 100 KB image (not images of different details Read More...
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"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...
How the WorldWide Telescope works
23 July 08 03:30 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Jon Udell gets the details from Jonathan Fay (no relation) on how WWT works.  How the WorldWide Telescope works Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) 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 | 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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Fun Images
23 July 08 10:37 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...
.NetMap - Released - visualize your Networks (Social, etc) from Excel
22 July 08 02:42 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
  .NetMap an Excel plugin and dll is now available (Binaries and Source) on CodePlex – This brings the ability to visualize different types of networks – ie. Social networks (facebook, etc) and even things like Protein interaction network (see image).  Read More...
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...
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...
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