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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...
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...
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...
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...
MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth
29 October 07 04:42 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Just tested out the MapCrucher Beta for VE - it really runs great. As soon as I get a few more cycles...I'll post a couple of the maps I did... MapCruncher™ beta for Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ is a newly-released, innovative tool that allows anyone to Read More...
PopFly open to Public Beta
18 October 07 04:12 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
It's great to see that PopFly is now open to a larger audience via it's public beta. I especially like the PopFly mashup Deb Agarwal (Berkeley Water Center) did with the AmeriFlux datasets they are working with - a good example of how you can visualize Read More...
Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In
12 September 07 10:21 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Just ran across this Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In from MSR - great way to scrap data from a web page - you can easily bring the data into Excel without much effort and then save the excel spreadsheet and refresh the data when you need it. The Excel 2007 Read More...
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Code Camp 8 Registration: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
17 August 07 11:15 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
For you eScience folks in the Boston area - here's a real opportunity to hear/see how Silverlight can be utilized... Code Camp 8 Registration and Call for Speakers Open! We're live and ready (thanks, Chris Pels!) Attendee registration and the Call for Read More...
Virtual Earth / Live Maps: beautiful 3D images of Niagara Falls
20 July 07 01:04 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Check out the beautiful VE imagery of Niagara Falls , I ran across it on the VE blog...especially check out the interactive 3D version...you can even image using this to go "over the falls in barrel". To appreciate this beautiful image of Niagara Falls Read More...
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Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
11 July 07 09:11 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Thanks to Alex Szalay (JHU) for pointing me to GalaxyZoo - now you can help classify galaxies. This really neat... Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking Read More...
Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing Projects
09 July 07 04:18 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I meant to do an entry on this paper by Stuart Ozer (MSR) and David Kim & David Baker ( Rosetta@Home ) months ago...it's a great way to integrate SQL Reporting services w/ something like Rosetta@Home, and provide really great service for not only Read More...
Microsoft Research Releases Tools to Help Science Progress Toward an AIDS Vaccine
14 June 07 01:17 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
You know there are times when superlatives don't do justice - I'll just leave it at this - David and Carl are doing great things - take a look at the app and the code...and the cool part is that the PhyloD code will run on the DigiePede Network ..... Read More...
Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Math 3.0
17 May 07 04:52 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I wish I had this when I was in school...sure would beat that old TI calculator I used :-) ... Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Math 3.0 New software helps students efficiently complete assignments while garnering the knowledge to succeed in the most difficult Read More...
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MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit updated
08 May 07 07:54 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The MSR Sense toolkit was updated to v.2a1 and is available for download The MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit (MSR Sense) is a collection of software tools that allow users to collect, process, archive, and visualize data from a sensor network. Read More...
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