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MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
11 March 09 10:50 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, Read More...
WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit Release -Microsoft Research
21 January 09 02:21 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
With this ADK , users can convert their own astronomical images/data to the format that can be read by WWT and share with other WWT users.  Can’t wait to see more images/datasets made available. WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit, January Read More...
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GrayWulf (on SQL Server) wins SC’08 Storage Challenge
25 November 08 10:52 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Congratulations to Alex Szalay and his amazing team at JHU for winning the SC’08 Storage Challenge – with the entry GrayWulf:Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing . GrayWulf – is implemented with SQL Server 2008 Abstract: Data intensive Read More...
Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
04 September 08 12:24 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use.  The SQL Server Data Mining folks have a Data Mining Service in the cloud they are testing out…I posted previously [ OLAP and Scientific Data & Data Mining Addins Read More...
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...
What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope?
15 February 08 03:45 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
In case you didn't see the blog entry on ZDNet about WWT What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope? , I can tell you the work that Curtis and Jonathan have done is amazing...stay tuned. Robert Scoble posted about a Microsoft product that Read More...
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[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...
TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider
28 January 08 09:15 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Ran across this post on Charlie Calvert's Community Blog using TerraServer's Web Services with LINQ...why is this interesting to me - many moons ago (before .NET was officially launched) I approached Tom Barclay who was running TerraServer and convinced Read More...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Virtual Labs - giving away a Camera
16 May 07 02:31 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just saw that the Virtual Labs folks are giving away a camera for using the labs... I'd recommend the Business Intelligence: Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis Services Creating a Distributed Application with C# Introducing Content Types for Microsoft Read More...
BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation CTP available
16 March 07 10:28 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
The CTP for BPEL for Windows Workflow is available download it now from MSDN The March 2007 CTP for our BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation was released today. BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is an add on for Windows Workflow Foundation Read More...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Your PCs forecast climate future
19 January 07 11:01 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
It's great to see the climate prediction .net folks getting fantastic uptake on the community computation simulation - over 250,000 users...as a sponsor of the effort , it's great to see those idle cycles going to good use. Your PCs forecast climate future Read More...
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